sgdesign

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   Ask HN: which WYSIWYG/Markdown text editor do you recommend?

   4 points by sgdesign 14y ago|4 comments
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   by sgdesign 14y ago

   Honestly, I understand not agreeing with the direction they're going in, but that doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing. Maybe we're just not the target market for all these apps?
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   by sgdesign 14y ago

   That was a good article, thanks. But I guess I'm giving Apple the benefit of the doubt: although I personally agree that some of their designs are tacky and over the top, I trust them enough to assume they have their reasons.
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   by sgdesign 14y ago

   Is your site broken? There is no demo, no call-to-action, nothing...
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   What skeuomorphism is (and isn't)(sachagreif.com)

   103 points by sgdesign 14y ago|42 comments
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   by sgdesign 14y ago

   Quick note: "HK" stands for "Hong Kong", it's not the author's name.
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   A Collection of Design Case Studies(sachagreif.com)

   1 points by sgdesign 14y ago|0 comments
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   by sgdesign 14y ago

   Why not just have optional pro accounts that people can get for a fee? "Pro" tags would be a quick way to make "serious" posters visually distinctive.
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   Design Case Study: Awessome.com(blog.folyo.me)

   1 points by sgdesign 14y ago|0 comments
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    I think Zenbox is part of a trend of aggregating and consolidating data. It's crazy how much information is duplicated and dispersed between all the services we use, so I think it's great that some companies are starting to bring everything
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    Nice effect! These kind of effects always seem kind of pointless at first, until a company like Instagram comes around and almost defines their whole product around them (same with Pinterest and the Masonry layout). I'm sure very cool thing
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    I think you always need a phase of experimenting new ideas before people find out what works and what doesn't. Ideally, those failed experiments would stay in-house and never reach the market, but it's not always easy to know which ideas ar
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    Is there anything I can do about it?
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    I'm very afraid of Scoutzie, that's what I think of them! They're a very close competitor with more resources and YC backing, and their execution is better than mine for a lot of things. But we'll see, as long as Folyo clients and designers
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    I'm somewhat in the same space with Folyo ( http://folyo.me ), and I know it's not an easy market. But Workfu was one of the competitors I was most impressed with. They had a great team and great execution, so I hope they find a way to pull
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    This headline does seem unusually misleading. I already came across this site 10 days ago, it doesn't seems like it was "launched" in any fashion? And it's not by Yehuda Katz, and also doesn't seem like a HN "competitor" since it probably d
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    I use the lowest brightness setting for the iPad, doesn't mess up too much with my sleep that way. But I'm still thinking about getting a Kindle for that reason.
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    This is a small nit-pick, but I feel like the word "design" gets thrown around a lot these days, until it doesn't even mean anything anymore. I would expect a "design trick" to be using color, contrast, or typography to achieve a result. If
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    Very cool, and great design! Seems you filter out tweets that are not in english? Is that provided by the Twitter API as well?
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    Yes, but as far as I can tell the two settings are not for the Google UI and the Google Search Results (which would make sense). They're for Some Google Products (i.e. Google Plus) and Google Search (both UI and search results). I might be
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    That's it in a nutshell. Thanks for expressing my frustration so clearly!
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    I agree with you for logged out users, but these things happen even when you are logged in.
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    I'm Not Japanese(sachagreif.com)

    189 points by sgdesign 14y ago|121 comments
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    Wow, what a great site. I love the design of their new "our video library can only be streamed within the United States" message. Very readable, good typography, a big improvement over the previous version. This redesign is definitely a suc
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    Case Study: the Design of ReelSurfer (YC S12)(blog.folyo.me)

    1 points by sgdesign 14y ago|0 comments
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    thanks!
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    Rails because I'm already familiar with it, and a JS heavy front-end because it will let me take on more of the work myself and depend less on the developer.
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    I am well aware of this, but Arc doesn't seem like a very popular language.. I could adapt Lamernews I suppose, I'll have to look into it. But in any case, the customisations I have in mind will probably require some outside coding help.
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    How about http://methodandcraft.com/ ? The thing is, there's no such thing as "website design centric" techniques in Photoshop, except maybe the effects palette (but you can learn 90% of that just by playing around with the options). The e
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    by sgdesign 14y ago

    I'd suggest downloading some design freebies (you can start here: http://sachagreif.com/the-design-freebies-list/ ) and "reverse-engineering" them in Photoshop. Also, just look at other designer's portfolios and work you can learn most of