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by polk 4y ago
Irrelevant, if that doesn't lead to product innovation. Historically, it hasn't.
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by polk 4y ago
Hijacking this comment to share another alternative: the app Balance ( https://www.balanceapp.com/ ) has really great sleep meditation, a bit similar to Yoga Nidra. They're currently running a promo where you can choose
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by polk 4y ago
It's applying next-gen lighting techniques to a game without lights.
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by polk 5y ago
I think it's because most tech/product people incorrectly assume that other people also search for the best products to solve their problems
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by polk 5y ago
Source? A quick Google suggests it does in fact work as intended https://i.redd.it/jrn155a2gf4z.png
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by polk 5y ago
Circuit | Fully remote company | GMT +/-4 | Senior Product Designer & Design Lead Last-mile delivery is one of the fastest growing industries and is quickly becoming a default part of everyday life - and yet is still running on out
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by polk 5y ago
Sure, my comment is in response to the claim that monochrome icons are user-hostile and pushed by a cargo-culting UX profession. Plenty of professional tools (Photoshop, Final Cut, Figma) have monochrome icons without it being a usability i
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by polk 5y ago
This is only true if we pretend that UI design is largely about button-level optimization. Clearly it needs to work on the macro level as well, and it's not farfetched to assume that optimizing every button, icon and text label for the
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by polk 6y ago
I think the design is great, just too small. Try viewing the demo ( https://read.cv/andy ) on desktop at 125% zoom. Pretty much perfect.
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by polk 6y ago
The implication here is that money spent on ads is largely wasted. Companies like Uber and Ebay have turned off all their adspend and saw little to no change in their acquisition metrics. You can argue that they were just doing it wrong. Bu
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by polk 6y ago
Thank you, this looks super useful! In case you're considering taking this further: a Figma plugin for this would make it 10x better. Changing the seed color could automatically update the color styles in the file, and would so propaga
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by polk 6y ago
> Lack of good offline workflow sucks This has just been solved: https://www.figma.com/blog/behind-the-feature-autosave/ Interesting timing on these articles getting published. Almost at exactly the same time,
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by polk 6y ago
>Someone, somewhere at that company chose to hire someone... and they know what they want them to do. Why aren't they telling me? This isn't necessarily true. As a counter example, I've seen team leads who claim they need
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by polk 6y ago
I'm surprised you find the race unnecessary, but continue to include the gender. "Rich people" would be all that's required.
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by polk 6y ago
>fan base who seem to like any change just for the sake of change I think it's more that (visual) UI Design has the same cyclical property of most other "visual design" like clothing fashion, interior design,... Things loo
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by polk 6y ago
The point is that the visibility is the best way to drive legislative change. Those changes will then have real-world impact. You're right that this is a slow process, but it's still the best we have in our current system. In real
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by polk 6y ago
Actual systemic progress happens through legislative changes. Social pressure is used by the public to show which issues they care about, and what politicians should be working on. The protest are one strong signal here. Support by major co
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by polk 7y ago
I feel like this is ignoring how self-centered most people are. There's plenty of laws that your average person agrees with because they want everyone else to follow them: pay your taxes, follow the speed limit, don't be loud afte
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by polk 7y ago
While great radio stations solve the issue of finding new music, finding great radio stations is even harder than finding new music. I've been lucky to have moved a few times and discovered some great local radio stations along the way
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by polk 7y ago
This sums it up pretty well: https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760
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by polk 7y ago
Here's a mockup of the game with improved lighting. Top is edited, bottom is actual screenshot: https://twitter.com/RavenmoreArt/status/1164447066300588033 The claim that changes like these take 12 months to
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by polk 7y ago
>JV has tried spending more money to update his graphics in an effort to expand his customer base, to little effect I'm sceptical of this for 2 reasons 1. It assumes cause and effect are linear, which I doubt. People are put off bec
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by polk 7y ago
One thing that bothers me in this discussion is the 'business model' justification. >his audience values that particular kind of game way more than it does art Isn't that ridiculously self-selecting? If he's always be
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by polk 7y ago
I don't think people are missing the point. There's 2 aspects to this: style (retro) and execution (the actual graphics). Gamers generally like the style. The Venn diagram of his target audience and people who like retro game visu
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by polk 9y ago
If you work at Google everything you make, even in your spare time, belongs to them. That's how the contracts work, unfortunately.