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by nchlswu 15y ago
the fundamental problem I have with the redesign is the fact that it introduced usability problems that weren't there before. I'll admit the redesign may have solved other ones, I admittedly didn't notice them at the time. The three points
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I hobble through that feature so often. You'd think a team that dogfoods this stuff would want to fix it. That being said, I know the feeling the parent is talking about, but I never got that feeling with Gmail. It was something that worked
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by nchlswu 15y ago
When Brin took the lead, the design culture inside Google changed. My facts may be slightly off, but Brin essentially gave a lot more freedom to designers. As part of the Google redesign (or +ifying), Brin gave all the design responsibiliti
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I only have undergrad research experience. In general, I haven't really seen focus on replicating previous results - but it depends on the work and the researcher. Most of what I've seen is a researchers who extend their own work. in doing
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While this is part of the 'problem' that is being solved by this project, I think as a whole, this issue is separate from the intent of that project. Making experiments transparent (ie. including data sets, including the algorithm) is an ex
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The full paper can be found here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pandre/pubs/whogivesatweet-cscw2012.p...
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What makes a great tweet?(hbr.org)
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I used to think I wanted to be technical. To an extent I still want to, but that approach didn't work out for me. Whenever I hear "just learn to code," the rationale is totally wrong. As you said, anyone can code, but to expect a non techni
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I find the parent's quote misleading without the context. "Just the first pictures were enough for her to conclude that the two paintings had been produced in tandem. After that, it was just a question of watching the evidence pile up." is
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From a strictly visual standpoint, I can agree with your assessment. But a good /design/ needs to consider the copywriting and marketing standpoint and the larger picture as a whole. Design in itself is not restricted to the visual. Design
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There was some interesting discussion about bloggers breaking news and attribution here: http://gigaom.com/2012/02/25/is-linking-just-polite-or-is-it... (and in related twitter discussions) I'm not entirely familiar with 'old media' pract
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by nchlswu 15y ago
> Sure, a well designed form is better than a badly designed form. Whats even better? No form at all When it comes to /true/ UX, I think this is pretty much it. Forms aren't necessary in a hell of a lot of times and often forms are redu
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by nchlswu 15y ago
Can you expand a bit more on the autism thing? I admittedly don't know much about autism, but I was under the impression that a big hurdle was the fact that an autistic person is very routine 'dependent'. So, when there is a novel event lik
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I'd actually love to see an iea like this come to fruition. It will probably be something more like an autonomous robot fight. But, it brings something tangible and a different dimension to competitions among coders
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there's a morse code gmail (Gmail Tap) as well.
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I recently switched from a BlackBerry to iPhone. Aside from my device being broken, I primarily switched due to the app ecosystem developed around Apple. As an (aspiring) UX professional, I felt I was missing out on a lot. I think the app e
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I haven't used Swype regularly. is Swype massively actually massively faster when it comes to two handed typing? I can easily see the performance difference for one handed typing, but I'm having trouble seeing power users reliably typing
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There is a lot of issues. Maybe not so much UI related, but a lot of menus, workflows, etc., are just too complicated. The BlackBerry key is essential to the UX and so are shortcuts for powerusers. But for the average end user consumer, thi
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it's definitely an advantage, and many people (like myself) prefer it. A lot people who suggest it's an advantage definitely over estimate it. It's not a make or break feature.
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Thank you for clarifying the statistic. I'm not challenging the disorder itself. I'm challenging a culture that's happy to jump to clinical diagnoses. There are a wide variety of traits people may possess that can easily fall into a variety
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Here's a relevant article that was on HN recently: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Starter+the+Architect+the+Deb... I think the idea of a person who does things from start to finish his highly romanticized and a lot less comon than whwat y
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by nchlswu 15y ago
Do you think you could provide some links or references? When I read your comment, I immediately thing of overdiagnosing condition these days. I only ask because I Think a lot of people in my generation (I guess that's Gen Y?) jump to the "
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by nchlswu 15y ago
Definitely why he issued the in depth statement, but I don't think he's backpedaling necessarily. I took a brief look at his Twitter feed and it looked consistent with his opinions.
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This is why Dustin originally shared his ideas.
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I agree with your assessment (in comment I'm immediately replying to) I'd like to add that I think Dustin wanted to share ideas in his blog post. I think his copy got in the way of what was important - the ideas that made the blog engine fa
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I find it fascinating the disdain people have for Dustin because of his attitude (which is pretty consistent if you follow him) and how he presented Svbtle. Clearly he was sharing some concepts and ideas that he felt were worth sharing and
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I know usability is a subset of UX. Thanks for the explanation. Breaking discoverability makes sense re: usability.
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by nchlswu 15y ago
A couple of general things. (1) Svbtle is actually a decent name (I sort of thing the 'v' is tired, but that's just a product of things I'm following doing that) Unfortunately, it's probably not appropriate for a tech audience (2) I'm very
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by nchlswu 15y ago
This may be a UX/Visual issue, but how is it a usability issue?
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I'd argue that he's already established the brand and it will forever stand out as Dustin's -- to his /target/ audience.

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