David Oudiette
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David Oudiette
@davidoudiette
Author of The Landing Page Cookbook.
Montréal, Québec Katılım Şubat 2014
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Fedrigoni corporate just sent us the Fedrigoni Paper Box. It's the definitive collection of their entire product line, 1760+ pages. For the uninitiated, Fedrigoni is world's leading ultra high end paper mill from Italy. They produce paper for companies like Hermès.
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@hobdaydesign @mattaningram @jstn if the designer made someone say that, they weren’t being constrained when they designed the thing in question
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@mattaningram @jstn I have seen many cases where a designer shows a technique and other people, often designers, say e.g. “devs will hate you” or “CSS can’t do this”. I’d say those designers were limited by technical awareness.
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no. constraints are the soup base of creativity
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Hot take: The more technical a designer becomes, the harder it is to craft truly great experiences; because at some point, the adventurous spirit gives way to the awareness of constraints.
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@mds Thanks, still haven't had a chance to play with the new UI. From here it looks like 1) small microinteraction improvements 2) overall IA mess (merging the avatar/play/share button with the details panel makes.. no sense?). Not sure it's a win overall? 🤷♂️
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@kmumsan @gleb_sexy Fr the way the "home", "community" and "figma" buttons are laid out is a hot mess. And uh, I can't have projects in the left menu anymore? Oh, I need to "star" everything? Great. 🤔
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Users: we want folders for files as just having teams & projects is not enough organization
Figma: hmmm how about we make it harder to navigate teams?
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@hobdaydesign @Superthread_ What makes them « core » here, though, as opposed to being basic/generic interactions used to *implement* the core mechanics? Seems confusing. Core mechanics implies some amount of domain specific semantics, I think.
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It's easy to assume the "core mechanics" of an interface is its main features/purpose. I think that's valid, but I think it's also valid to think about the core interactions. e.g. at @Superthread_ "dragging" is a core interaction. You drag cards, you drag text blocks, etc.
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A common concept in video games is "core mechanics". e.g. if it's a first-person shooter, one core mechanic is shooting. It should feel good because you'll do it often.
What are the core mechanics of a software interface?
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@valvis_earth @simonsarris Sure you can. That seems like a misreading of the video, that shows not so much precision as *control* over all the variables of a process, that gives more room for exploration. You can make more mistakes with a complex process than a simple one.
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@simonsarris You can essentially do nothing "wrong" with this. It’s the perfect coffee in one way. There is no room for happy little mistakes that lead to other interesting outcomes which are perfect in their own way.
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In ritual, *friction* is good. Intuitive with hand-made things, with candles rather than electric, with long processes. *Repetition* is also necessary.
I think as a result there can be a level of *precision* that doesn't feel quite right.
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@dekisu @alicemazzy 1001 things you must do before you die vibes
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@alicemazzy it's like looking up a list of cool music and listening to all of it so that they can say they know about music
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@t15_ventures @mijustin That genre of tweet can't die early enough.
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@mijustin What's compelling? Lots of people building new ideas on top of things lots of other people just built.
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@alexeyguzey That's part of a larger pattern that comes from the "tech"/SV mindset that considers means separately from ends. Tech people focus on building "general purpose" capabilities/optionality but have no idea what to apply them to.
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@DrewCoffman Now let’s talk about how you can use fluid ounces to measure volumes that aren’t fluids.
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hate it when a unit of measurement comes between me and the homies 😔
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@spakhm Picture a blank slate and gradually add information about what you’re building. Try to see with each addition what *is* there vs what you’re *assuming* is there.
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@shahahmed @MightyApp Would be more convincing if Dropbox wasn’t the single go to example people keep mentioning, though. How many dumb forgotten ideas were actually dumb and called out for it? You’ll always find someone to dunk on an idea. That’s not a litmus test for success.
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these @MightyApp hacker news comments have the same energy as the dropbox hacker news comments
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@visakanv I feel like modes are *also* simpler on guitar. Just start the scale on a different degree and shift it. Still just need to know 1 shape.
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for people who play piano and not guitar and are like "well yea duh", this is what it's like on guitar lmfao
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oh shit i didn't realize that you can just change the key of a song in piano until it's easy to play
on guitar changing the key doesn't really make as significant a difference
but like, the coffin dance song for eg, if you start on D, you can play it on just the white keys
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@visakanv is no one going to mention figs while we're at it?
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interesting that coffee is a bean and tea is a leaf. feels like there should be something else that's another thing. I guess wine is fruit and beer is grain
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@derek_j_morris What that says about us is that tech journalism is mostly terrible / not doing its job.
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