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by accomplice 10y ago
I guess 15 years too late is better than never.
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by accomplice 10y ago
Nice work! Honestly the design is fantastic! I guess you are able to do this in your spare time if you are really good at managing your spare time eh?
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by accomplice 13y ago
Absolutely! If it means helping to define and grow the culture I can do my best work in. To work with people I admire and trust(and may even be around for the next thing).. that's better than most jobs anywhere and incentive enough to
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by accomplice 13y ago
Moved to San Francisco and spent time with people smarter than myself.
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by accomplice 13y ago
Also, 35 an hour might be too low. Charging more makes a great first impression, and cheap clients are rarely worth it.
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by accomplice 13y ago
Yogo brings up a good point. You can get solid work via referrals, craigslist and e-whatever-lance by rolling a few wordpress themes and customizing wordpress sites. You may be underestimating the value of intermediate skills. While a large
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by accomplice 13y ago
Diamons: "For flare, I'd make the body text such as username/password small like an 11px font." I am curious why you would say that?
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by accomplice 14y ago
This is really good advice!
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by accomplice 14y ago
I do, but that's because I am not a developer so a lot of the information on HN is novel and outside my usual knowledge base. That, and the designer digests available on the web are so dumbed down it's hard to stomach. Like watching repeat
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by accomplice 14y ago
oops, numbering got away from me there.
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by accomplice 14y ago
1. Read the good books in print. While the web is a wonderful resource for developers, it is not the same for designers. Most of the tips and tricks complied on the web are of little value for actually learning design. Most of the articles
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by accomplice 14y ago
I searched "front end" and separately "UI" and the graphs are staggering -- for those searches it's nothing but boom time. I would expect similar results for "python" or "ruby"
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by accomplice 14y ago
As a way to send information is email unsurpassed, however from the receivers perspective the signal to noise ratio quickly favors noise.. and by that time it is difficult to adjust. The real failing is that the interaction paradigms for tu
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by accomplice 14y ago
I have been in similar situations with very distracted CEO's who just thought of everyones input as opinions, or content to digest. Big problem, but solvable if you get another engineer to help make cases with you and help mentor (without e
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by accomplice 15y ago
Depends entirely what you mean by copy. Here are 3 very common scenarios and likely outcomes. Copy verbatim is really frowned up. Stealing an image outright is seriously frowned upon (you get served a DMCA notice or similar), same with well
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by accomplice 15y ago
I'm thinking about teaching a class on this, if you want to be a guinea pig and give me some feedback on what you think are the most relevant parts of a designers oeuvre are, we could try it over coffee and look at some of the specific prob
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by accomplice 15y ago
I agree with the Split test, but also while you are at it, run some landing page test. However, that means you have to have alternatives to test, so get the visual design stuff right and have a few versions to test with a specific conversio
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by accomplice 15y ago
Here some advice from Ryan Freitas http://secondverse.tumblr.com/post/5840343627/so-you-want-to... Here a couple of red flags to look out for. They are looking to be a billion dollar company. This is another way of saying that they have g
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by accomplice 15y ago
No need for that step, ask you designer to try this. In settings, make set all increments to pixels. Then set the grid to 1px X 1px (in some unobtrusive color) When creating a new doc, always go to view / (check) snap to grid / then wheneve
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by accomplice 15y ago
Your best bet in my opinion is learning Fireworks, it easy to make vector wireframes, and is is meant for churning out web optimized assets. The 9 slicing is huge help when reusing buttons, modules etc. Plus, there are lots of great UI temp
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by accomplice 15y ago
This is just plain wrong. Before adobe released the "align to pixel grid" and the preview in pixels (since CS or before) there has always been any easy way to work on a pixel grid, and snap everything. If you dont know how.. thats one thing
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by accomplice 16y ago
I'm sorry you received such praise for the design of these, you may have been mislead. But yes, it's its entirely possible to hack together a look-a-like design and people will like it, but that does not make it good design. The same princi