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Cooking. That food should be delicious and not just edible (usability and UX). Coders and designers are chefs, each has their unique recipes but they all follow established best practices.

I clicked on the link before I saw that it's Taxi, which is crap.

This sort of shallow thinking is representative of the designer, if we define designers very loosely and pathetically.

My site is up too. http://mocku.ps

The status page (https://status.heroku.com/) is also really slow now.

Haha I like "it just reminded us of the new album or movie we wanted to download when we got back to our room".

I love how this talks about problems with design in companies at a much deeper sense than all the shallow Apple-worshipping bullshit tech blogs everywhere are coming up with.

Really nice post. I'm a designer/developer and I'm lucky my wife understands the work I do.

Here's my rage comic for http://mocku.ps and also my very first rage comic.

http://imgur.com/HKSI3

Bounceapp is not precise.

Your portfolio is already on the homepage. Either have it in one place or make the other one richer. The transition of the portfolio slides is too slow, makes me impatient. Also it will be neat to make it start sliding only when the user has scroll to it. Like check scrollTop on scroll event then start the slideshow.

Thanks for the heads up on that bug. Which browser/OS did you encounter it?

Bounceapp.com already does that URL thing you are talking about. I use it before I made Mocku.ps but I needed more precision i.e. tiled backgrounds, to better communicate designs to some clients.

I made it for people to use so please go ahead!

While I'm definitely iterating my landing page to better explain what it is, I also want to understand how you did not get it. I don't know how every designer thinks so I may have made wrong assumptions. Are you a designer by the way?

Thanks! I'm getting mixed opinions from various people. Some get it right away some don't. Digging deeper.

I was in a company that created "apps" on Twitter. It's basically a bot that responds to input of a predefined syntax. If you tweet "@twitterbot weather singapore today" it will give you the weather. It could be an execution problem that people just didn't find it intuitive enough to use Twitter this way. So it didn't succeed as a concept prover.

Haha nice one.

I'd say fuck rhythm too if I'm not a designer. But I am and it's my job to look at things others don't look at. You can look at a 4-pixel rhythm as 8-pixel, 16-pixel or 32-pixel. 4 is just the lowest basic unit.

Maybe I'm wrong but right or wrong isn't the point. Making people think and talk about something is.

Content height is unpredictable so even with a baseline grid, you will still get half-visible content most of the time. I was just lucky in my example :D

About the borders. I also noticed each cell is actually a space + 1 border. So you are right to say each table group is actually N+1. The extra pixel has to be subtracted from somewhere and I believe it's in the space between groups.

I haven't looked into the cap height issue as much as you do but one thing that really bothers me and as a result the developer I work with is that Helvetica and Helvetica Neue have different top and bottom boundaries. So there are slight differences in text render on the Retina display.

It was a typo. Fixed.