jkoberg

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by jkoberg 3y ago
there is a difference between silos and domains. It’s great for domains to be separated, and independently well-defined. The silos I have seen cause problems are between organizational functions, like “Product” and engineering or “The Busi
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by jkoberg 6y ago
The proper identifier for a rarely used feature is a WORD .
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by jkoberg 6y ago
Have you ever run user tests though?
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by jkoberg 6y ago
"tiny little cute icons" is already a big problem in UX. Every designer should be testing the success rates of "little icons" against textual labels. If you have to have an animated tooltip on hover that says what th
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by jkoberg 6y ago
Tiny inscrutable icons are a terrible design fad. The solution isn't "yet another free icon collection"
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by jkoberg 6y ago
Yeah, "Designers" destroyed latency in UX with animation, transitions, and other such noise.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
What frequency band are you using? ISM is the only one that permits store-and-forward / automatic operation, as the gotenna people found. You say a few miles per node - I am having trouble seeing how that's possible without eleva
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by jkoberg 7y ago
How about the words "body fat" ?
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by jkoberg 7y ago
And, these icons adhere to international standards. They are not just "made up" to suit a designer's whim.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
The Play button is internationally standardized in ISO/IEC 18035, as well. Using your own icons confuses users.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
Have you used Airbnb's apps? They're the worst example of "design" over actual usability.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
Why? To tell the user where there mouse pointer is? Is that a problem? Or are you forcing people to scrub over every element on the screen to "discover" instead of it being visible to begin with? That's annoying as hell and
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by jkoberg 7y ago
They had to add settings to turn that stuff off because it makes people woozy. "cute" design with no user goal has collateral damage.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
I disagree. In no way does it add to the communication or understanding of the numbers. It just makes it take longer for them to appear.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
If people have to mouse over things to see what to click, you already failed. We call that "mystery meat" And the constant flashing of colors and backgrounds all over the page as you move the mouse is extremely distracting.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
Ugh. These do not "delight" me whatsoever.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
Animation is more of a tool to stroke "designer" egos than it is useful. Most animations offer zero usability improvement, while forcing the user to spend battery rendering dozens of frames to the screen, slowing down interactions
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by jkoberg 7y ago
It's not a big deal now that embedded machines with a half a gig of RAM/multicore processors and open-source postscript rendering software is common, but postscript traditionally came with a heavy price in compute resources and so
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by jkoberg 7y ago
Cool, they'll probably just park down the street, shifting the burden to other people and infrastructure. Another externality the developers can exploit...
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by jkoberg 7y ago
> That’s why five years ago, my co-founder Alex and I started a company to prove that holographic displays were possible This is spam
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by jkoberg 7y ago
So, like, Java?
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by jkoberg 7y ago
Good, because hyperloop was more of a fantasy than good engineering. Wait - it's still a giant vacuum tunnel? Well, there's the fantasy
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by jkoberg 7y ago
Why go to a theatre when I have a 4K 60" TV at home? Theatres were a distribution mechanism, it's been superseded.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
How will we pay for the military? How will we pay for the farm bailout? How will we pay for oil industry subsidies? Oh, we "just will" ?
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by jkoberg 7y ago
Youtube was way better before it was seen as a way to make a living. People did stuff just because they loved it. Now it's a lot of spam. Every channel constantly begs for "patrons", sometimes for 2 or more minutes at the b
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by jkoberg 7y ago
"passing them in" isn't really dependency injection, it's just taking arguments.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
> (Comcast still has datacaps. Pricing like it’s 1999…) That's not how internet was billed in 1999. You paid for the size of the pipe, not how much data came through. Per-byte pricing is pretty much a cell carrier and Comcast invent
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by jkoberg 7y ago
> Are you used to browsing Instagram without signing in to check out what your favorite brands are sharing? LOL, no.
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by jkoberg 7y ago
Holy crap Google Photos is annoying. Would much rather just have a link to a JPEG
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by jkoberg 7y ago
You'd be amazed at home much time and how many resources useless UI animations take up. Go turn "Animation Scale" to 0 in the android developer settings page, and it will feel like your phone is 10x faster.

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