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I left Twitter for a while because Scott Baio personally tried to ruin my life for making a joke about him on here.
But I'm back now. 👋
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Jim Silverman
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Jim Silverman
@jimsilvs
I do web design at a big company.
New Jersey Katılım Eylül 2022
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Went on Product Hunt for the first time in a few years looking for some real life inspiration. All I found are niche stuff for start-up folks.
Where do people find real product design these days?
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@RebovichInst @JWKeady I don't understand. Why would anyone advocate for confusion over advantage when most of the democratic world already has has fair and straightforward ballots?
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@JWKeady Confusion versus advantage, though, right? Whether we like it or not, this is not pick our own adventure-- this primary will take place with the ballots we have.
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Mercer County Dems have a rule that will allow Andy Kim and Tammy Murphy to both share the county line if both get at least 40 percent of the convention vote.
Nothing stopping other elected committee members to advocate for the same in their own counties.
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@oykun Feels like a false dichotomy.
Form and function aren't at opposite ends of a scale. In product design, form should serve function to enhance functionality and accessibility.
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@ddayen Thank you for bringing the blatant corruption of NJ's ballot design into the light.
There can be a debate on who's the better candidate. But it should not be debatable that the ballot design should be a level playing field.
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NEW from me: Bob Menendez is going to lose his Senate seat in New Jersey. The county party bosses who run local politics are trying to hand it to the governor's wife, ex-Republican former banker Tammy Murphy, by giving her what is known as the county line:
prospect.org/politics/2023-…
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@jsngr You joke, but this is a dramatically better UX in many ways
It follows standard and expected patterns, shows all settings in a scannable way, has an immediately available "off" option
The average user doesn't want to play with this. They just want to set the button and move on
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this is the Action Button settings screen if Apple didn't care about the details
Sebastiaan de With@sdw
I thought Action Button settings screen was over the top already but check out what happens when you hold your phone sideways while configuring it – holy wow (via @techcrunch)
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@novikoff Counterpoint: Aesthetics are subjective and should not affect usability.
Create great defaults and set guardrails for customization. Everyone wins.
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Fair enough.
But here is caviar: people know nothing about usability, and not everyone has taste, unfortunately.
Sometimes restrictions are better.
And people pay more for less.
Less is more. Yep.
Mr Android FHD@android_fhd
Android is light years ahead of iOS interms of customization 😏
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@disco_lu Great tip, but why does this work? Shouldn't the two-step linear gradient have 360,100,40 as its midpoint by default?
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@machinehuman "critical to humanity" in this case does not mean a positive impact.
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Can I ask a dumb question?
What exactly about Twitter is “critical to humanity”?
Internal Tech Emails@TechEmails
Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk April 26, 2022
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@TedGoas super curious to see how far someone stretched Breaking Bad to make it a product management clout post.
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Seriously they just keep coming, hate these dumb things.
🦋 Ted Goas@TedGoas
My timeline is filled with these. How do I make it stop???
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@mar15sa @briannekimmel She's citing a study from October 2020, when many were still adjusting to pandemic-related remote work or didn't have options.
Seems like important context nearly two years later. 🤷♂️ indeed.com/lead/a-day-in-…
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@briannekimmel This screams false data due to the source and the fact those people could still do all those things if they really wanted to.
The only difference now is they have freedom to create the commute they want instead of just accepting the one given to them.
twitter.com/mar15sa/status…
Marissa Goldberg@mar15sa
"I love remote work, but I'm having trouble with boundaries between my work and personal life. I used to use my commute to relax, now I can't turn my brain off." Let's talk about this. Starting with: you don't need a commute, you need a ritual 👇
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A study by Indeed found 50% of remote workers miss their daily commute (average time of 26 minutes).
Favorite routines included quick breakfast stop or listening to their favorite morning radio show.
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@ilyamiskov Someone needs to bring back Forrst. I don't remember what happened to it after it was acquired, but man, was it a great community for design feedback.
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@andybudd All industries are like this. It's not a design thing, it's a Twitter thing. Everyone's just trying to have a unique and controversial take to get followers.
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Everybody is a designer
UX doesn't exist
You can't "design" an experience
Only drug users call their customers "users"
There are no "design tools"
I really can't think of an industry so quick to 💩 on its own lawn and then spend hours discussing the merits of said 💩
Peter Merholz@peterme
This catalyzed a strong reaction, and lead me to reflect more on just what am I getting at. So, I think I'm saying there are no 'design tools.' And that the phrase "design tool" is thought-terminating (to use an Erika-ism (@mulegirl)). (1/10) A 🧵👇🏻
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@hobdaydesign @blankenship The plight of a designer on a large, established product. Most of the work is iterative and business-driven. Can't capture it in a portfolio because I'm not looking to bore people to tears explaining the context behind each user story.
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@blankenship I’ve made hundreds of improvements to a sprawling platform over 5 years. I don’t have good proof of every improvement. Listing them all would be too long a case study. But 99% of the improvements can’t be a case study on their own. Too small/boring/iterative.
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One of the more broken parts of design hiring (especially at higher levels of leadership and influence) is that hardly anything of significance and impact at scale is designed by individuals anymore, but people still want the artifact of a traditional design portfolio.
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@bencsin I'm perplexed by the hype as well. Sure, it's clever visual design to hide the camera cutout... but it's still just a notification pane. Always out of reach.
On Android, you can swipe down anywhere on your home screen to bring these things into tappable range. Much more usable.
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@TedGoas I enjoyed it! Particularly the bit about upward mobility as an IC. I constantly find myself (internally) debating the same thing.
Overall, it was just the right amount of depth for my morning coffee with a smattering of quality reads to cue up. Looking forward to the next!
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Alright, this went pretty smoothly. Looks like the email was successfully delivered and hopefully folks enjoyed it. This was a lot of fun, I'm excited to do this every two weeks!
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@GergelyOrosz Absolutely right. I can't imagine they've landed many (any?) Enterprise accounts. Pitch's main differentiators are aesthetic. That's simply irrelevant to larger orgs, who make do with a basic branded template.
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Most people I know who use Pitch are people who were curious why the company raised $85M for a tool that does what Google Sides or Powerpoint does. Most are not impressed (neither am I). It's fine.
IMO the team will likely have to pivot, so the runway extension is smart.
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Pitch, a tool/platform to make presentations, raised $85M at a $600M valuation last year. They grew to ~180 people and today announced letting 59 of those people go to extend their runway to 4 years.
I'm not too surpised, given it doesn't feel Pitch has found product-market fit.
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@brianne2k Another useful skill: knowing when your can affect change and when to abandon ship.
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by age 30 you should have worked several toxic jobs and developed a skill for recognizing red flags in job postings
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@brian_lovin It might not be for everyone, but I do appreciate that they're taking some bold risks in both design and content.
I wouldn't be surprised to see some of this UI toned down as complaints pour in over the next few weeks.
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Someone said it. I'm struggling to read the new version. Tons of sideways text, low-contrast/overlapping elements, and lack of hierarchy on nearly every page of the site.
Used to be a great place to skim for good headlines and topics.
Sam Parr@thesamparr
Today @TheVerge launched a new blog design. The redesign is a BEAUTIFUL example of... Letting New York/LA designers make a slick website that's totally useless, hard to use, and not user focused. So many internet companies do this. What a shame.
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