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by psweber 14y ago
With a preposterous amount of Facebook users all across the world, I think we are all projecting our personal experience on millions of others to make a value judgement. I personally get nothing out of it. How is it positively changing your
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by psweber 14y ago
How many "Why everyone should learn to code" articles show up on Hacker News? The same idea applies to design thinking. It will make you more powerful. User centered problem solving methodologies and visual communication abilities will help
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by psweber 14y ago
I mostly agree with you. Many UX professionals I have worked with are almost proud about the fact that they don't have hands on experience with software development or visual design. They are the worst of both worlds. That being said, I don
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by psweber 14y ago
The larger the organization, the less true that is. If you are working on a small product team, you should most definitely get your hands dirty with (some of) the front end development. If you work at an agency or as a freelance consultant
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by psweber 14y ago
UX design tools and processes are definitely lagging behind right now. The annotated wireframe document created in Visio, InDesign, OmniGraffle, etc. is still the norm. The closest thing we have to a solid prototyping tool is Axure ( http:/
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by psweber 14y ago
> Great project managers are gold. Don't know what the deleted comment said, but I second that. A good PM protects you from the nonsense that kills focus.
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by psweber 14y ago
You really sucked the fun out of that.
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by psweber 14y ago
> I'm not trying to be mean - just realistic I don't think there is any reason to criticize you personally for thinking/responding this way, but I find that that attitude leads to the comments on Hacker News that I think are most unhelp
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by psweber 14y ago
I was prepared to be annoyed that something like this appeared on the front page, but this is a very thorough list of the best Photoshop templates out there for mobile. teehan+lax always have the best iOS templates (they are included in the
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by psweber 14y ago
This is rarely (if ever) mentioned in all these articles claiming that coffee is so beneficial. I drink a fair amount of coffee and try to cut back frequently because of this issue. It isn't just that coffee makes me crap more, it degrades
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by psweber 14y ago
I much prefer the value I get from O'Reilly. No DRM. Any format I could want. The PDF is especially useful for technical material.
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by psweber 14y ago
You are generalizing. Every group has assholes. Hyper-sensitive is probably closer to the truth.
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by psweber 14y ago
The thought of making email more like a todo list is terrifying to me. I try to move valuable information and tasks out of email and into trusted systems that are designed specifically for those purposes as fast as possible. Testing out thi
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by psweber 14y ago
This post is mixing metaphors a lot. Software developer as architect, electrician, plumber and building code expert. I don't see anything about understanding and meeting the needs of people that actually use the final, functioning system. T
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by psweber 14y ago
> the hundreds of friends and acquaintances I've made throughout the years would get lost to time As they should.
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by psweber 14y ago
Agreed. I'm doing freelance for a huge corporate client. There was a nice plan and schedule for feedback and revisions. I'm now on the 8th round of changes and all the different departments weight in.
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by psweber 14y ago
Hardware makers seem to have come around to this idea. Apple is obviously strong. I think the experience of getting a Kindle in mail that is already set up with your Amazon account is pretty great. I was a fan of the first time experience o
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by psweber 14y ago
Standard agency waterfall process. Definitely shooting for "perfect". The product just launched. It was funded by the client's extremely wealthy family and the upkeep fees should be tiny compared to the upfront cost they paid to the agency,
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by psweber 14y ago
I just went through this from the agency side, and I totally agree with the author. I think just the list of people that were brought on the project prove the point. All these people were involved: Account director, Project Manager, Busines
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by psweber 14y ago
If you debate semantics on Hacker News, you're gonna have a bad time.
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by psweber 14y ago
Awesome practical example. Yer right. Life is definitely more nuanced, and acting "pleasant" 100% of the time doesn't make sense.
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by psweber 14y ago
> I would argue that in this case we are seeing a misguided (and probably temporary) "zeal of the convert" While many of your points are valid, I don’t see the author as a misguided person who has made a temporary, superficial discovery
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by psweber 14y ago
Comments like this make Hacker News pretty great.
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by psweber 14y ago
> However this was just an indignant HN comment against Jeff Atwood who committed the sin orders of magnitude worse by beaming out this nonsense to his tens of thousands of readers. I agree with your agreement, but it certainly would be
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by psweber 14y ago
Sounds like you've never met a graphic designer.
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by psweber 14y ago
Oh, I don't haaaate him. I just find his opinions obnoxious, and it doesn't seem like people will stop listening to him any time soon.
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by psweber 14y ago
If John Gruber had not invented Markdown, he would be very high on my least favorite humans list.
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by psweber 14y ago
I've found that if you charge a day rate and deliver the things you promise, clients will never worry about time. You still need to have the discipline to get things done, but it takes the pressure off making sure you are billable for a cer
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by psweber 14y ago
Yeah, that was the line that stood out to me: "If possible, work with clients who are somewhat removed from the money they're paying you." Going after that type of client often means the work itself isn't as interesting, but it's great advi
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by psweber 14y ago
The title is pretty accurate. This isn't the type of site you get when you have a "digital agency" designs your site. It is the type of site you get from an "ad agency". I've done a little bit of interaction design consulting for old school

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