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Image for Windows is a good replacement. Also available for Linux.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm

This article was a response to the "Best UI no UI" debate that was sparked by one of Cooper's article I think [1]

Personally I think the "Best Interface = No Interface" mantra is too black and white and totally ignores all the shades of grey in between. If you come up with these principles, the language needs to be much clearer.

I think what people meant to say was "Sometimes the best UI is no GUI".

Best response so far is by Scott Berkun[2]

[1] http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/08/the-best-interface-is-...

[2] http://scottberkun.com/2013/the-no-ui-debate-is-rubbish/

First of all thanks for doing what you're doing, trying to make a positive change. I can imagine it requires a lot of your time, financial resources and causes additional stress. Most people (including me) would probably just give in to avoid the hassle.

Nowadays I only fly to the US if I absolutely have to. Being treated as if you're a criminal and having seen how the US border control shouted at a woman in a wheelchair and made her cry was enough for me to choose other holiday destinations in the future, where you are more welcomed as a tourist.

Design tip: you might want to increase the color contrast. White text on a light grey background isn't very legible.

A useful tool to check color contrast is Paciello's Contrast Analyser [1]

[1]http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrastAnalyser

Your reply on the ember forum seemed packed with frustration, hence the response so far I guess.

Wouldn't it be better to include a brief note on the homepage to highlight that docs are WIP and point to other getting started resources? Just to avoid further frustrated newcomers?

Anyway, your reply here paints a more complete picture and just wanted to say thanks for your contribution to OSS.

Looking forward to the updated emberjs docs.

Having additional strong portfolio pieces definitely helps, and yes quality over quantity. Whether it will be enough for Google & Co, I don't know. Usually these companies require more experience, if you want to work as a UX designer for them. But don't let that discourage you - definitely work on your sideprojects - you never know.

Also, it wasn't clear from your post what you want to focus on initially as a designer - more on this topic here: https://medium.com/design-ux/3623c3243aa6

Again, judging from your portfolio only, it looks like you should maybe focus on UI design first, as this seems to be your strong point and find a job in a UX specific agency, so you can see and learn what other UX practioners do, learn more about UCD etc.

I'm sure there must be UX only agencies in Australia or startups - a quick Google search came back with

http://www.stamfordinteractive.com.au/join-our-team/

http://www.lbi.com/au/

If you could work for LBi for example, you could maybe transfer more easily to the US at a later stage.

Other tips:

* Get on Dribbble (that's how some UI designers get hired / headhunted)

* Start blogging about design, what you're passionate about etc - helps later on when recruiters review your portfolio

Anyway, keep us updated...

Hi Alex,

Had a look and some quick comments:

* If you want to work as a UX Designer, then I think you need more UX portfolio pieces, showcasing your design thinking and how you solved various design problems. Most of your work seems to be campaign or brochureware related, I couldn't see anything transactional or application related for example, so try to get more experience in that area too.

* If you've done anything in the mobile or app space include it in your portfolio. If not find a sideproject you can work on and create a case study which you can include in your portfolio, similar to http://www.repeattimerapp.com/how/

* One of your designs (under construction) looks like it's a Wordpress template - try to avoid showing unfinished work

* Lorem ipsum is verboten, try to avoid it http://37signals.com/svn/archives/001083.php

You might also want to review the following pages, to give you an idea what companies like Google, Apple, etc expect.

http://www.cooper.com/careers/interaction-designer.html

http://www.cooper.com/careers/visual-designer.html

http://www.quora.com/What-do-clients-employers-recruiters-lo...

http://www.quora.com/User-Experience/What-are-the-best-UX-De...

A great blog by Simon Pan - also from Australia - http://www.simonpan.com/how-ux-found-me/ - maybe email him, I'm sure he's got other tips...

In summary, judging from your portfolio only, I think you need to get more experience (agency / startup) before applying as a UX Designer at Google & Co.

Nice cookie rendering btw ;)