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by mrxd 13y ago
Cost is not the same as price.
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by mrxd 13y ago
It's hard for me to take this article seriously with so many falsehoods. Shortage of STEM workers? Debunked: http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i... College costs out of control? Only
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by mrxd 13y ago
It can still be about race even if you aren't thinking about race when you make that kind of judgment. If you are black and poor, you may not realize that having a clean car is something you will be judged on, and the lack of knowledge
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by mrxd 13y ago
I like Mike Monteiro's perspective: we have to give a hand up to the people who have been held down.
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by mrxd 13y ago
Some other fun examples: soft Corinthian leather, Lucky Strike ("It's toasted!"). These fit alongside Madagascar vanilla and artisanal hamburger buns. But "unapologetically plastic" clearly doesn't. The pattern
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by mrxd 13y ago
This article[1] from the WSJ shows that administration varies between 3-10% of education spending. So probably not a significant driver. [1]: http://graphics.wsj.com/documents/NONCLASS1212/ Unless there is data sho
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by mrxd 13y ago
Is there any data showing that the cost of college is increasing? I know the price (i.e. tuition) is increasing, but this is due to colleges increasing tuition rates to make up for shortfalls as state budgets for higher education are cut.
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by mrxd 13y ago
You're right that this example is no more semantic than inline styles, but that's the extent of the similarities. If you want to update all the large margins across the app, you can do that in one place. That wouldn't be poss
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by mrxd 13y ago
Some very interesting points. I think the thesis can be made even stronger by observing that the flaw in Christensen's model is that he views a product only as a means to an end. Two products that provide the same outcome are identical
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by mrxd 13y ago
Don't forget Marxism, with the goal of "the withering away of the state."
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by mrxd 13y ago
The words "astroturf" and "grassroots" refer to political movements. Wealthy people create the appearance of a broad movement representing the public interest that advocates for certain policy positions, but this is just
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by mrxd 13y ago
One way to say that with less speculating about motives is that entrepreneurial designers do exist, but they go into art, not business. Another point I'd make is about disruptive business models. According to Clay Christensen, it'
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by mrxd 13y ago
False. SVG is an XML format, and very much human-readable.
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by mrxd 13y ago
Does this argument work for illustration as well? Do you prefer to write SVG using a text editor instead of using Illustrator?
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Getting whole teams involved in the process has been standard practice for UX designers for over a decade. For the most part, the problem has been getting non-UX folks to care at all. What you describe sounds like a scenario where everyone
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by mrxd 13y ago
Reading this made me wonder if the author really has a good understanding of what's going on in the UX field. Maybe he's run into a few people calling themselves UX designers and then generalizing from a small sample into the enti
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by mrxd 13y ago
Well, yeah but... no. Cognitive load is not really about speed or animation taking up time.
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by mrxd 13y ago
That sounds a lot like "You can have personal autonomy if you use it in ways approved by the authorities. Otherwise, you will be given 'guidance', i.e. coercion." So essentially, no autonomy for anyone. If you don't
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by mrxd 13y ago
Pretty terrifying that Venezuelans have to live without protection of the 4th amendment! So glad that here in America oh wait...
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Might be related: Amazon increased headcount by 57% in 2012: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2013/01/am...
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by mrxd 13y ago
There's a Youtube series called 'So you think you know wine' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGNMpqfwhUk Each episode is a blind taste teste of a single wine with 4 experts who are asked to guess the varietal,
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by mrxd 13y ago
If you've ever been in the position of a "design dictator", you know that it's no picnic. You live and die on every piece of qualitative user feedback, every usability test and every A-B test result. Sure, you get to make decisions, but if
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by mrxd 13y ago
Agreed. Dilbert is a popular comic strip because people recognize the situations in their own lives. This suggests that the "pointed-headed boss" problem is much more common - bosses who think they know about technology because they've had
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by mrxd 14y ago
That's from the book "The Computer Boys Take Over" - you can find a summary here: http://stanford.io/x6Pk35
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by mrxd 14y ago
> Personally I believe that gender imbalance in this (and other) professions is only indirectly related to gender. History disagrees with you. In the 1960s, programming was considered to be "women's work", like typing, filing and other
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by mrxd 14y ago
I know there is data showing that adding meaningless security badges and icons to checkout designs increases users' perception of security, so I wouldn't be surprised if the fake progress bar was effective. I'm not sure if there is a better
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It sounds like you are referring to the guidelines for how long the measure should be for for optimal legibility . What I'm saying is that aside from legibility, the length of the measure also influences user behavior - a shorter measure n
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by mrxd 14y ago
> They're more interested in seeing eye-candy than reading, thinking, and discussing. I think that's right, and it's reflected in the design of the site. The narrow width of the comments page strongly conveys an expectation of tweet-len
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by mrxd 14y ago
At the risk of overgeneralizing, many in the HN community are clearly defensive about their lack of design skills. Almost every time a nice-looking link comes up, the reaction is predictable: you'll find lots of comments finding fault with
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by mrxd 14y ago
I think actually very few web designers came from print, as you can tell by Photoshop as the tool of choice. If they had come from print design, they would have probably used Illustrator or some other vector based tool.

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