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by studiofellow 14y ago
I tried to indicate your first point in the post: > But for small startups like mine, ... > Brand awareness doesn’t exist if your customers number in the hundreds. I think it's clear that I'm talking about landing pages for a ce
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. I'm the OP. Please note my response to a similar comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416724 You're right that the logo is not only below the fold. There is a dimmed version in the top right
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Thanks. The point is to place the logo low on the visual heirarchy. 'Below the fold' is just a snappier (and also somewhat less accurate) way of stating that point.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
That's a great example. Although unfortunately many newspaper websites are placing ads in that location.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
(I'm the author.) You're right that a dimmed logo shows there, but it's low on the visual hierarchy. So this still fits the goal I explain in the post: put what customers want to know first.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
I'm Jarrod, the guy behind Bootstrapping Design. Sorry I'm late to this thread, and thank you for sharing the book! There are a couple of other design ebooks worth a look: Sacha Greif's Step By Step UI Design: http://sachagreif.com/ebook/
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by studiofellow 14y ago
The email newsletter is a medium. It's often abused, but that's not the fault of the medium. Saying all newsletters are useless is a lot like saying all books are useless. Are there terrible books? Yes. Are there terrible newsletters? Yes.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Sorry about that. The hinting on Calluna via Typekit isn't so great. I need to switch to a different font for paragraphs.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Yes, it's a web app, but not subscription based. Essentially: create account, create toolkit, pay, download. No drag and drop, WYSIWYG stuff like the others you linked. Purely focused on customizing a design style. Hope that answers your qu
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Stuck on your startup’s design?(blog.studiofellow.com)
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Hi, I'm the creator of Cascade. Thanks for posting. Happy to answer any questions.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Why did you buy those programming books sitting on your shelf? Because you wanted to learn to code so you could do X. (Probably get a job, get clients, make cool things, etc.) Copywriting is an effort to connect with the reader and tell the
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Just wanted to share my perspective as someone who is relatively new to HN, but has had some successful (if that's the right word) threads about my projects. The first post I submitted was a most-mortem about my startup. IIRC, it make the t
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Most of the PayPal bashing I see is due to their strange policies with merchants. Horror stories of frozen accounts, forced refunds, etc. That's the main reason I don't use them. But yes, the terrible UI doesn't help either.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
I'm in the US, and I only see the redesign on the homepage, not after log in. Maybe they haven't rolled the rest out yet.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
What browser/OS are you using? I can't confirm the issue. Thanks!
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Hello, I'm the author. Happy to answer any questions, or connect you with people who have read the ebook. Feel free to email me anytime: hello [at] bootstrappingdesign {dot} com.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Also, I should have clarified: on the original landing page, the language I used was: "Coming soon." "Want to know when it's ready?" The original design is here: http://cl.ly/0o143s3d053r3V2B2K3v I put up the page with every intention to
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Thanks! The fact that we both launched design ebooks on the same day and both succeeded shows how awesome the community is.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
Agreed--in many of these cases, people need education about how to properly use display faces.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
What's funny about this is the changes are not only the typeface. The creator is also correcting proximity, alignment, etc. I'd argue those factors make a much bigger difference in the quality of a design than typeface choice.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
What you're saying is that Lobster, Bello, and Museo offend your sensibilities and are used frequently. That doesn't mean they are of poor quality. Bad choices? Maybe. Bad typeface designs? No.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
What OS? I'm aware of rendering issue in Windows Chrome because it ignores ClearType settings. Hadn't seen any issues in Firefox though.
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by studiofellow 14y ago
I'm sorry you felt deceived. I really did start writing within a day or so of the initial landing page launch because enough people showed interest. So the goal of those emails I sent was not to gauge interest (I already knew that), but to
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by studiofellow 14y ago
If anything, Lobster is the new FF Dax. Dax and its siblings were the popular startup branding typefaces a few years back. And, Comic Sans is not a terrible typeface. It's just terrible for almost every application, except for comic book le
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by studiofellow 14y ago
I can't help but wonder whether leaving money on the table and leaving complexity on the table are correlated to such a severe degree at every price higher than $150. Big customers are dangerous, and I've seen businesses where I have worked
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by studiofellow 14y ago
I'm a designer who learned Rails to build a web app, and the learning curve was steeper than I expected. I still don't know everything on this graphic. I bought several rails books, read the humble little ruby book, pro git, github docs, rv
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by studiofellow 14y ago
I hadn't seen that thread. Interesting that our experiences are practically opposite. I left a comment on that other thread, but I think this part is relevant here: Maybe we're all just pointing fingers at each other. It's obviously produc
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by studiofellow 14y ago
I'm not convinced it's selection bias, but just that there is a huge range in skillsets now. In my personal network, I'd estimate that more than 50% of the designers I know are competent front end coders. (I've worked at a couple of large a
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by studiofellow 14y ago
I think learning design can seem really difficult after a cursory glance at the design community. Sorry to mention this, but it's the best way I know to help. I wrote an ebook about design specifically for coders and technical founders. It

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