irondavycole

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by irondavycole 15y ago
And why wouldn't they? They're explicitly an homage to a photo that hundreds of thousands of people (especially those in the startup scene) saw.
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by irondavycole 15y ago
Promoting their own event is not without self-interest, even if the poster sales aren't directly profitable. Also, it's not authorship over "red on white" as a concept, it's authorship over this specific combination of type, size, layout, &
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by irondavycole 15y ago
Designer of EtherPad here. I'm a big fan of HackPad and I encourage people to give it a shot. I get a lot of questions about the best version of EtherPad out there, and HackPad is the one I recommend. It might not look that different, but t
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by irondavycole 15y ago
Yeah, we're invite only right now so our sales & sign up flow is only given to people we let in. There's an application form if you're interested. The pricing isn't a secret though, just not advertised. Memberly takes 5% (like Kickstart
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by irondavycole 15y ago
Not yet, we're focused on the provider workflow side of hte product at the moment. The discovery end will come later, when we have more momentum. We're only working with providers that drive their own traffic right now.
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by irondavycole 15y ago
I'm a designer at Memberly — this is precisely what we do. If anyone has any questions/interest, feel free to contact me (email in profile)!
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by irondavycole 15y ago
I did some UX consulting for The Colbert Report that required me to research their entire writing and production workflow and my understanding is that the executive producers of the shows might check in with each other, but it's true that t
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by irondavycole 15y ago
Designer of the site here. (Thank you for the kind words.) We wanted to do something upbeat and positive, a kind of join-the-movement and do-your-part vibe. If it were a story just about Amit, we might be more dire, but this is a much bigge
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Design design design: on the ambiguity and importance of the word "design"(quora.com)
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by irondavycole 16y ago
Was the iPad client not developed in-house?
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by irondavycole 16y ago
Fans of OMM might be interested in the Wikipedia drama surrounding the OMM article deletion: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/02/old-man-murray-de... I have no dog in the fight, Wikipedia arguments are dizzyingly pedantic, but I fo
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by irondavycole 16y ago
Yes! I would absolutely participate.
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by irondavycole 16y ago
I don't even think it takes knowledge of implementation, just respect for it. I've had engineers ask me to fix certain design problems that would take weeks of prototyping and user testing to actually nail down in a meaningful way. Good dev
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by irondavycole 16y ago
You're suggesting that "mister visual UX dudes" (like me, for example) don't take complexity of implementation into account when making design decisions. We do. It's part of the process. Note that he said to send the designer the e-mail, no
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by irondavycole 16y ago
Their criticism stems more from the "don't make me think" philosophy. If you're quickly fetching something from the kitchen, it's totally understandable if your mind is elsewhere. It's not so much that it's impossible to know if it's on,
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by irondavycole 16y ago
The paradigm of the pagination, and the idea of a system for programmatically creating editorial layout is definitely worth stealing and I think it's fully fair to build products that do this. What would frustrate me if I was at Flipboard
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by irondavycole 16y ago
These are definitely UX methods used by practitioners in larger workplaces/agencies. The issue is that most startups don't have a UX person that focuses exclusively on UX. For better or for worse, there aren't many resources given to UX in
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by irondavycole 16y ago
There's also an iPhone app for this called Daily Deed.
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by irondavycole 16y ago
For (a) I would recommend Mark Boulton's book, Designing for the Web, which is available free online: http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/index.php It has really competent sections dedicated to aesthetics: typography, color, and layout.
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by irondavycole 16y ago
As a designer, I highly recommend this book. It's beginner level but very comprehensive.
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by irondavycole 16y ago
This is the problem with most SM articles and with most web design sites in general. I say this as someone who is featured in this post. Portfolio sites have a perfect reason to be minimal: the work comes first. But that's what you get from
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by irondavycole 16y ago
I've been playing SID for the past few days. The interface is fairly confusing but the 'gameplay' is absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended. At first the 30 second limit seemed outrageous, but once you find the rhythm it makes for a reall
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by irondavycole 17y ago
Fugly is up for debate (one probably not worth having). Confusing I'd like to hear your defense for. I don't personally find it confusing. Regardless, what is a better measure for the success of a product's interface than its ability to s
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by irondavycole 17y ago
A lot of my UI pals disagree, but I think the guys at Amazon and CNN are killing it, certainly operating at the highest level.