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Comment by Spivak | Hacker News Reader

It would have been funny if they were the designers. Their Twitter page does the same thing for some reason.

Edit: of the product, not the web page.

Given that there's exactly two individuals in said photos, in multiple poses, holding the object in question, they probably aren't stock photos at least. I also kinda doubt models were specifically hired to market this product.

I don't know if I believe a "designer" touched this page. Most designers would cringe at this page. (I like it, for what it's worth, it is excellent at communicating the product and the intent with which you should understand the product.)

I suspect they are either the people who developed the product, employees of people who developed the product, or friends of the people who developed the product.

And you'll remember it and talk about it.

Screw design, the mission was accomplished!

> I also kinda doubt models were specifically hired to market this product.

Wait how much do you think it costs to hire some models for a half-day shoot? They could easily be friends, yes, but it's not inconceivable that someone forked over a little dough to do an amusing photo shoot.

...or they're stock photos of a person holding a generic small object which has been replaced with the product via image-editing software.

There's a school of thought that the best design is when you don't notice it. Maybe a professional designer did this, intentionally. It's generating word of mouth, alright.

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