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by mrxd 14y ago
Sometimes I meet people who follow this advice, and it usually doesn't go very well. Yes, egotism and self-centeredness is common, but it is a vice, and I try not to be that way. I really don't appreciate it when someone tries to encourage
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You're saying that every generation starts with nothing, as if they were new immigrants to this country. If so, then the American Dream is dead. Most immigrants worked hard because they believed that they could pass on a better life to thei
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The placeholder selectors in SASS 3.2 are really cool, almost like creating a private keyword for CSS. But I would never use semantic class names, that just seems like a huge waste of time. If I'm building a page, I shouldn't have to touch
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Effects of Typography on Reader Mood and Productivity(usabilitypost.com)
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> Why shouldn't we approach the development of society from these perspectives? You probably didn't realize this, but the reason is that it's authoritarian and paternalistic. In a democratic society everyone, participates in public life
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There are very few universal UX principles -- context almost always matters. The idea of universal UX principles is a holdover from the 80s when the field was still dominated by cognitive psychology approaches to HCI. Having said that, UX i
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They are related terms. I thought of consumerism because I don't see perfection as necessarily implying materialism. When I think about materialism, I think of someone who likes to show off their flashy car -- this is about having something
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That's funny, because I was thinking the exact opposite. Consumerism is about novelty: you buy a thing, then get bored of it, so you dump it in your garage to make room for the next new thing. Buying the best is the opposite of this, becaus
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It's called user experience design.
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I agree - we don't really know anything about Jony Ive as a UI designer. The skeuomorphism will probably be toned down, but I have a hard time believing he will follow Microsoft's lead by copying Metro. Windows 8 and especially Office 2013
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I would like to understand why you think being able to tweet from your fridge is a good idea.
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You are a genius, sir/madam.
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I would suggest focusing on visual design even if you are only interested in UX. Aside from technique, the core competency for both kinds of design is learning how to see. IMO, this is an easier skill to develop in the context of visual des
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First, most of the design work you are referring to comes from the print world, which has some differences from designing for a screen. Second, part of the reason that modernist styles were critically acclaimed is because they managed to pu
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It will come as a shock for you to learn that high modernist design aesthetic you are celebrating was subjected to some withering critiques. It was considered cold, austere, artificial, too abstract, uncomfortable and hostile to humanity --
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Human beings are accustomed to looking a physical phenomena. Designs that deviate from those rules are experienced as artificial, strange or uncomfortable. But you're right that you can't say never use black. It would be more correct to say
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Designers don't need clients to get experience, they can just work on their own projects.
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The point about cheating is this: what makes cheating possible? It's because there is a gap between answers written on a piece of paper, and what is inside someone's head. This is true of all kinds of tests, but it is more true of answers t
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Yes, the argument that objective subjects are better judges of someone's education sounds plausible at first glance, but on closer inspection, I think the opposite is actually true. Suppose we have 10 completed math tests that have been gra
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"No, you can't. There are a long string of false assumptions and logical flaws in your post." Stated as fact, but you give no reasons why anyone should believe it. I thought this part was quite striking: "algebra does show us that the stude
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In the humanities, you are taught how to understand what people are trying to do with language, so I can't help reading your comment from that perspective. You say people rarely fail algebra and succeed at other subjects. To put that anothe
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Hey come on, there's no need to nitpick. We all know he meant to write "Peon"!
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There are lots of well-known sitcoms with extended families in them: Everyone Loves Raymond, The Cosby Show, etc. But if I were you, I'd get some illustrations made of a family (or buy them on istockphoto), name them The Leaf Family and the
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The Corleone family in the demo account is cute, but it's not the greatest way of demoing what it would look like for a real family to use it. It's also a dramatic shift in tone from the logo, which is more friendly, approachable and peacef
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Most people have found UIs built by developers to be hard to use and ugly. Based on this fact, it's logical to discount approaches to interaction design that are rooted in software development principles.
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There are a few reasons that design resists commodification - one of them is that it's like peacock feathers. A well-designed site or app signals that the creator invested resources into it. Generic design looks untrustworthy to a potential
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I was once on Zeldman's semantic CSS bandwagon - Designing with Web Standards was the Bible for me. Not anymore. Now I think it is a huge mistake that creates unmaintainable CSS. Here's why: Let's say I want to style a box to hold an image