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by simulo 3y ago
Yes, that section seemed to be a bit incoherent to me. However, it was only a brief comment, not even on data science rather but rather the strong confidence in a picking-the-winning version idea of design via A/B tests.
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by simulo 3y ago
I agree with the "single people can create good software without involvement of a UX expert". That does not only apply to UX experts, but any other expert role (You do not even need a person who sees themselves as a programmer; a
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by simulo 3y ago
My point was that "good" is good only in connection to an ecosystem of tech, values, practices and the people judging what is "good". I personally do not think any group of users "drags the field down".
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by simulo 3y ago
No. People were not just "better" and I also think that the core motivation was and is making money. However, how companies earn money changed. In the 80s and 90s computers were marketed at professionals working in offices. Softwa
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by simulo 3y ago
The suggestion is similar to the "search a command"-UI that some more complex destop programs have in their help menu. The idea to use text more actively in user interfaces is not new, there were/are these ideas, for example:
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by simulo 3y ago
I see it mainly as an digital painting app and it is advertised by its creators as such ("painting program … art tools"). There, it goes far beyond basic functionality and is very much ready for mainstream. It does a lot of things
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by simulo 3y ago
Indeed! Great article on that: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2019/01/30/html-css-and-... "many of us without a computer science background are here because of the ease of starting to write HTM
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by simulo 3y ago
> …yet wonder how maintainable it will be in the future. If the code is well written, is should be no problem and actually be easier because there are no framework you need to keep in pace with. > DPaint.js doesn't need building.
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by simulo 4y ago
(OP) To contribute some of my own findings: Some high level infos or ideas on the "small web" or "web 0" can be found on: – https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/ – https:&#
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by simulo 4y ago
I have some places where I use vue.js since I could not easily implement the interactivity otherwise, but in general, I agree.
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Ask HN: Learning to build small, maintainable web apps
3 points by simulo 4y ago|5 comments
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by simulo 4y ago
Related academic publication: "Worship, Faith, and Evangelism: Religion as an Ideological Lens for Engineering Worlds", Ames, Rosner, Erickson,2015 "...a common ideological framework that appears across four engineering endea
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by simulo 4y ago
– A version that is better formatted and has links to serveral comments (praising and adversarial ones) is avaliable on the article’s original author’s website: http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-c
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by simulo 4y ago
There is a longer section on the (dis-)connection between thinking and language in the second chapter of Oliver Sacks’ “Seeing Voices” (1989) including accounts by Deaf people, psychological research and philosophical ideas.
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by simulo 4y ago
If you liked the article, you might enjoy reading "Gesture and the nature of language" (Armstrong/Stokoe/Wilcox), suggesting that language developed both signed and spoken and that grammar in particular relates to these
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by simulo 4y ago
> but I haven't seen the material in there elsewhere Indeed. The references are full of works to studies from the Design Studies journal, in-situ work studies, works of philosophy etc.
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by simulo 4y ago
Bas Jansen and Felienne Hermans created a block based language, XLBlocks. Read their paper here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336187404_XLBlocks_...
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by simulo 4y ago
Very interesting article – I knew some of the books and articles, but I did not know about his (non-)position in French academia.
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by simulo 4y ago
Thanks! I pushed a version without the typos and slightly more contrasting colors, including a defined background color.
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by simulo 4y ago
Yes, I deliberately avoided to put feature prioritization or even personas or Jobs-To-Be-Done in the book — there are too many ways to do this and it is of no use if I write about one and the team/PM/company prefers another.
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by simulo 4y ago
hmm, goooooood point. I wonder why I did this. Thanks for pointing this out!
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by simulo 4y ago
I do blog on https://fordes.de (with an RSS to subscribe to)
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by simulo 4y ago
Ohno, “reserach” is my favorite spelling mistake. I regularly search-replace for it and regularly create new reseraches.
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by simulo 4y ago
Thanks! Feel free to poke me if there in an occasional sentence that is not as plainly written as it could be:)
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by simulo 4y ago
I agree that discussing that distinction [ed: between needs and wants] can make sense. Since the book does not use the concept of needs as an abstract concepts (“what is a Need”) nor as research device (“What are your needs?”) I did not dis
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Show HN: A beginner’s guide to finding user needs
182 points by simulo 4y ago|22 comments
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by simulo 4y ago
David Graeber's "What's the point if we can't have fun": https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-hav... . Graeber makes interesting points and also criticizes views that most pe
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by simulo 4y ago
I find coding to be a useful skill when collaborating with developers and for writing my own prototypes, but it is not very valuable for getting jobs as it is rarely a required skill.
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by simulo 4y ago
They announced that an import for figma files will be added soon: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-our-time-has-come/1563
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by simulo 4y ago
Yes – they have not announced anything to the contrary and the same company also creates taiga, a project management too, which is open source since many years.

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