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by tipjoy 19y ago
Amen. Why don't more software engineers realize designers are on their side? If your product isn't meant to be used only by hackers like yourself, then you need to have someone thinking about how the end user will understand/interact with/
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by tipjoy 19y ago
In the end of this article, the author states that "In Conclusion X It's Not Necessarily Ugliness That Sells." He then goes on to plea with people to consider their usability over their aesthetic design. This seems a somewhat weak ending
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UPA Boston Sept mtg - Client Side Story: Making Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence Usable(upaboston.org)
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by tipjoy 19y ago
I rarely get involved in these sorts of discussions, and will continue by remaining neutral on this issue. However you've hit on my pet peeve - the 'slipery slope cliche' and so I cannot remain silent. All of humankind's decisions lie so
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by tipjoy 19y ago
I was a bit turned off by the Spock sign up process myself, but for different reasons. First, the invite email was extremely vague - "a new search engine that organizes information around people"? I thought it might be a new human-assiste
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by tipjoy 19y ago
I think this works extremely well when your users are familiar with the tasks associated with the type of thing your making. But if you're creating something entirely new, they'll need more guidance from the designer to get users started.
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by tipjoy 19y ago
Putting the menus either at the top or the left (or right or bottom) of a browser window won't do a thing to address the issue here, unless the user always maximizes their browser to fill their screen. In that case, flush left or right wou
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by tipjoy 19y ago
Most of us probably have those moments where we think of how great it would be to live one of your 'extreme' examples, but we wouldn't really want to live like that. Who wants to spend their lives just sitting around? In fact, most people
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by tipjoy 19y ago
It's interesting that you think that people who are really driven can end up being unsatisfied because of that nagging feeling they have telling them there's more to be done. I would think that having a lot of money would give you the freed
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by tipjoy 19y ago
Or, as the update to the post suggests, allow people to pay a large amount up front.
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by tipjoy 19y ago
Malcolm Gladwell rarely says anything too revolutionary, but he always says it in such an engaging and fascinating way as to make what we already know seem amazing. The 'tale of a user who doesn't know what he wants' always reminds me of a
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by tipjoy 19y ago
what, not voldemort?
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by tipjoy 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pq user: pq created: 2 hours ago karma: -5 about: Not you-know-who; just want to see how many people confuse him for me, since his stuff seems to get a ton of upvotes, automatically.
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by tipjoy 19y ago
how sly!
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by tipjoy 19y ago
Don't discount those of us in Arlington!
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by tipjoy 19y ago
You mention the necessity to have 2-3 cofounders, as does Paul in his "why to not not start a startup." In a 2-person startup, do you think both people need to be software developers? I'm an interaction designer, and so although I do the