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by nchlswu 15y ago
I was going to bring this up. I don't follow the hardware scene at all unless I'm buying parts. I bought a fairly cheap OCZ SSD, but they don't have quite the best reputation (anecdotal evidence). I've read stories about SSDs not lasting lo
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by nchlswu 15y ago
> 1. Unlike Apple, which apparently eschews formal user research, Google relied on "ethnographic research" to shape Android 4.0. I definitely think this idea has began to take a life of its own so to speak. I've read that Apple doesn't
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I think you'd be surprised. The latest PowerPoint versions are surprisingly powerful. Duarte Design did some work with it to demonstrate it's power. However, I would acknowledge that it's painstaking to make a deck that pretty because some
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by nchlswu 15y ago
To add to this point, it's not comfortable for the majority of users. If you look at a normal distribution of users, they want to cover some sort of number and I'd wager that this screen size is hitting that number. EDIT: Spelling. I don't
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I didn't watch the Keynote, but based on Nicholas Felton's feature on the timeline page and what I've read, Facebook gave him a lot of credit. For those who don't know, Felton is a graphic designer hired in April [ http://www.fastcodesign.c
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by nchlswu 15y ago
This analysis has very little to do with User Research. The analysis is all about a fundamental difference in the approach that Microsoft and Apple take to file management. Microsoft's solution may not be "elegant" or changing their current
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I definitely agree with what you're saying. However, I'd really like to know the origins of the "Apple doesn't do User Testing" Has that ever been substantiated? I've heard it once or twice in various incarnations, such as "Apple doesn't do
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by nchlswu 15y ago
The alignment is an oversight with the author's mockup. His post is focused on the vertical rhythm and the proportions on the Y-axis. If I'm not mistaken, the author doesn't take issue with the proportions on the x-axis and makes the mistak
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by nchlswu 15y ago
It looks like that's what they're doing (unless I misinterpreted this quote): > Our telecom source noted that Intel made an unusual choice in also using active cabling for future optical-based iterations of Thunderbolt. Passive cabling
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by nchlswu 15y ago
> I don't buy that it's a social experiment more than someone trying to be clever and game a system. That's fair. But would you be more inclined to think of it as a social experiment if it wasn't limited to Jonathan's physical gift car
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by nchlswu 15y ago
> The "experiment" was to see if a system based purely on goodwill, like take-a-penny, leave-a-penny, can survive. Although this is a whole other discussion, the experiment had a few more implications than that, and Odio pointed them ou
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by nchlswu 15y ago
While Sam's post was admittedly a bit snarky, and his actions did seem a bit 'scummy.' But Sam simply contributed to the experiment. Surely others were going to take advantage of the system. While his actions may run counter to the 'spirit
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I find this approach interesting compared something like OpenCourseware. If I understand correctly, this is a very similar approach, with a graded portion not typically offered at something like Khan or Open Courseware? I'm curious about an
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I have overall mixed feelings about this "user test." Maybe it's just a problem with what the industry calls "user tests." The demand characteristics of the tasks in this "test" make it difficult to make any real conclusions from the data.
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Universal Music goes to war against hip hop blogs(techdirt.com)
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by nchlswu 15y ago
Personally, I'm not a very technical person, so I'd probably not attend events like this. I'd definitely be interested in a general HN meetup, though.
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by nchlswu 15y ago
That's based on the assumption that everyone offended knows of the forum, though.
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Layout and usability is vanilla and noting too special. I'm guessing this coincides with larger rebranding effort? I think the only thing that's turning people off is the intensity of the green in the graphics. With full picture content and
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by nchlswu 15y ago
Design with out a goal or design with out a purpose is not design. Design can mean so many things these days, it's hard to fault the author or give him a hard time, but the remarks he makes at the end of the post are worth reading. To succe
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I believe the new MagSafe connectors were redesigned partially to deal with strain problems. I forget where I read it but it made sense when I came across it. As for the design, I'm inclined to agree with squidbot and say that the thread is
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I thought I read that one of the purposes for the new connectors was strain-relief related? The old MagSafe connectors were a pain to use if you wanted to bend the cable towards the back and really seemed like an improvement (at least for m
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by nchlswu 15y ago
The tile interface is definitely a shell, right now. It's a stepping stone for Microsoft to step into a post-desktop world. I've read a lot of commentary that is very impressed with the tiles and just as much commentary writing it off as so
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by nchlswu 15y ago
Last week, well before these comments there was a Microsoft info session at the University of Waterloo. The recruiter curiously said "the next version of Windows, which is going to be released next year." I assumed she misspoke, but I guess
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by nchlswu 15y ago
How's indenting/tabbing handled? "x spaces" or a tab? I'm wondering if you have any funny indenting/tabbing behaviour.
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by nchlswu 15y ago
As far as I'm concerned, when I read this I had no problems with what Apple is doing. They got a memo stating that Apple is looking into it, and don't confirm/deny malware. That's what they're supposed to do, no? This is hardly a cover up.
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by nchlswu 15y ago
who is liable now, though? I recall learning about technical errors leading to some devastating, or potentially devastating problems, but the builders weren't necessarily held liable to the full degree? I imagine there would have to be some
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by nchlswu 15y ago
I wonder how they're getting over any stigma culture shock. In their own products, they're careful to reduce any "creep factor" by not using our information in ways that provide too much immediate feedback, like ads that are too highly ta
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by nchlswu 16y ago
They definitely realize that they have to offer some sort of solution, hence his "stay tuned." It was a big UX and strategy choice to offer the a one folder dropbox and it paid off. Now's when they can roll out what people want.
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by nchlswu 16y ago
I'm curious if the organizational changes at Google will have any change for product acquisitions and how they fare inside Google going forward.
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It's disappointing how many UX blogs, sites and "professionals" don't back up their claims with data. Too many articles give rationale behind design decision while presenting reasoning as fact without supporting them with real data. There's

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