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Hi, UX designer here, which I came to via usability and Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface. You don't want to look for modern UX materials. You want to look for older "usability" and "human-computer interface" (HCI) materials. 1970's and
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What a distinctive photo on the home page. It's casually erotic and says a lot about who they're trying to target and how. But, the "How It Works" page is cartoonish and has a completely different (immature, tacky) aesthetic. One of these
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Except, it's not true regardless, that's the whole point of the criticisms. First, we're not all shipwrecked, and I don't think trying to solve problems for those who are is going to be a valuable enterprise in the long term. Second, the cr
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The trouble with Maslow's hierarchy is that it's a psychological framework that sounds good, but has no basis in fact. The "Criticisms" section of the article touches on most of the major concerns, so if you consider taking this advice, ple
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Paul Graham defines "ambitious"-important problems differently than others have. I use Dr. Richard Hamming's version, from his talk, You and Your Research: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html And I started asking,
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This is what a wiki is on the data side. On the infrastructure side, there have been attempts at self-hosted wikis, where the files that run the site are editable from within the site itself. Unfortunately, the "could this actually work" pa
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SEEKING WORK remote or in Austin, TX I'm Vitorio, a skilled user experience and interaction designer in Austin, TX. I am currently available for research and design engagements, and also for ad-hoc design questions by the hour. If you thi
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Hi, user experience and interaction designer here. I especially like talking with early-stage startups because I ask hard questions that save a lot of time and effort in the long run. I also offer this as a service via UX Hours: http://u
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This is interesting to me! I've never met an engineer or artist who I would trust to do the UX. They are very, very disparate skill sets with very, very different goals. And, all the "hybrids" I know understand where their limits are, an
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I think it's telling about the audience here at HN that no-one, in a set of threads about communication skills, called out that my second and third sentences were positively and unnecessarily brutal. Some commenters may say, well, we see
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This is a good example of what I meant when I wrote, "talking is entirely about the other person. " "How do I track issues" is almost irrelevant, because it's not about you. It's about the client. What is the easiest, most comprehensible
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Maybe you're talking with nincompoops. But maybe -- and perhaps more likely -- you're just a terrible communicator. Perhaps you have genuinely poor written communication skills, and are incapable of holding a conversation without the proper
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Many years ago, I designed and ran a developer relations program. Companies would license our tech for a quarter million dollars and up, sometimes multiple times for multiple products. We used to hand it over with basically no knowledge t
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"Contributing" is a project by bradfitz specifically to explain how to contribute to projects, and to collect those explanations. http://contributing.appspot.com/ On Github at: https://github.com/bradfitz/contributing
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Hi, UX and interaction designer here, but once, a long time ago, I was a developer. I learned to program typing in code from books and magazines, and, later, from reading and rewriting parts of open source projects that did things similar t
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Your master services agreement with your clients should define this in your intellectual property assignment and/or licensing clauses. To not have this defined is risky business practice. I currently do user experience consulting, and my c
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It's interesting that Bram (I assume it's still Bram's show over there) has finally gone with a new streaming-optimized protocol design. We argued about it years ago. Here's Bram in 2004 arguing that live streaming is a niche market: ht
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Actigraphy?
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You need to find mentors in person. Working for a startup isn't going to teach you how the design industry works; it'll teach you what that one startup thinks a designer should do. I talked with a startup recently who thought they needed "a
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There are actually three issues here: 1. Are reviewers rating the data using the right scale/format? 1-10 might mean one thing to you and something different to someone else. 1-10 might be inappropriate when you really mean a multiple cho
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This is interesting. How do you "look for the moments worth recollecting?" You might be interested in this (somewhat dated, from May 2012) slide deck of related work I'm doing: http://s3.amazonaws.com/vitorio/Automated%20Storytelling%20M.
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Gordon Bell's testbed was outstripped by the possible data collection years ago, and he's admitted he rarely did anything with his archives after collecting what he did, serving more as a reference library for others. That Samsung patent su
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What is your company working on? As far as I know, no academic research or even rumored corporate research is going into useful, consumer-oriented (meaning able to provide meaningful value to the user with minimal curation and/or improving
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Thanks! I felt since I was quoting an essay in a future edition of a quarterly which you'd have to pay to read, it would, indirectly, be to my advantage, and, as such, warranted a disclaimer.
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Hamming's essay isn't about winning Nobel prizes. Hamming's essay isn't about inventing something no-one's come up with before. Hamming's essay is about doing great work, solving important problems, and having significance. He provides expl
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I don't think that's true. I think doing great work in the major problems in your field of choice are the exact heights that entrepreneurialism should strive for. (Disclaimer: I recently wrote an essay arguing this same thing, for designer
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It's not an old problem, see this paper, Automatically Organizing Bookmarks Per Contents, from 1996: http://iw3c2.cs.ust.hk/WWW5/www5conf.inria.fr/fich_html/pape... Could implement what they designed as an extension...
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It would be interesting to partner with Striking.ly to offer one-page resume hosting sites.
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SEEKING WORK: Austin, TX, remote I'm a skilled user experience and interaction designer , with broad experience across many types of companies and applications. I don't do art and I don't do implementation; I do "how it works" and "is this
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And clickable: http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/15-09/mf_... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pennyarcade/penny-arcade...

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