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I use Hacker News'd which is a pretty cool Chrome extension that tells you (and links to) HN submissions for any URL https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-newsd/njdnd...

Ignoring any aspect of design will make you look frivolous. Yes, exploring trends are a subset of design but they are just as important as any other aspect of design.

When I'm asked to design something of course I test and make sure it's functional. But I equally make sure it's current and appeals to whoever it should be selling to. Both are important - neither are frivolous.

It may surprise you, but a part of design is fashion [trends].

My Ski jacket from about 10 years ago still works really well. At the time it looked great, but now it's outdated in style, although it still works great.

So as a designer, yes I worry about trends, because if I don't then you'll end up picking a jacket that works and is on trend over a jacket that just works (other things being equal like price etc).

Design is not a single input discipline. Many factors go into making a design for a product... including trends and fads.

Just spent christmas snowmobiling and I much prefer a map on my phone with a GPS pinpoint of where I am. I'm not used to a snowy landscape so I couldn't reference were I am on a paper map, but my phone made that easy.

You think coding up the project is the heavy lifting?

For me it's not the split, or the lower rate vs what I'd normally earn. But I'm like you in that I can't just ditch existing clients for a couple of months and expect them to be there when I get back should this not work out.

I wonder if that also excludes in vitro meat? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat

DoMyBit.com / net / org

originally for a "do my bit for the environment" kind of site.

There doesn't seem to be much information for non-accredited people wanting to invest. Is this only open to existing investors?

Edit: found more info here http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/19/angellist-now-gives-smaller...

UI Design is a type of language and as such has to communicate a symbol with a meaning (or action in most cases).

If you can use a language element that your user already understands, why would you rule it out?

I also wonder why you compare Skeuomorphism with flat design when you can have a flat skeuomorphic design anyway.

And I'd also be careful with stating that any design trend is here to stay. Most design trends have been here before and will be back again in the future. It just happens that the flat-look is on trend.

You don't need an mvp to asses demand. Go on forums, get out on the street and ask people.

1) Get them to agree [or disagree] that the problem exists.

2) Explain your solution and get a reaction.

You should already have some idea of demand before you write a single line of code (other than the code they wrote for this simple page)

that's not true. Not every product requires the same amount of "minimal".

You can quite easily get the signal from users of your MVP that they are not interested - when actually it's just that you have a crappy MVP.

Besides that, your original comment was not about building an MVP, it was referring to a full product. That's what I was referring to with "months" and "thousands"

You're saying it's better to invest months of time, thousands of dollars only to find nobody wants it?

For every Facebook you quote me, I'll show you 10,000 others that didn't succeed and instead wasted time and effort when they could have done some customer research exactly like this.

1. There are already services to "backup" your socially posted content http://jolicloud.com http://socialfolders.me/

2. Cross posting to multiple services is really, really hard. Each service has a different number of fields. You would have to get the user to complete the full information for each service in one go. Technically you could map all these fields, but from a UX point of view it's really hard.

3. Most services cross post between other services already. At least in a way that matters to most. And there are various ways that are "good enough"

Having said that, yes there is a demand for this. I've heard it direct from my customers. I actually work the other way in that I aggregate what you already post socially.

But I would look very hard at the financial side on this, I'm not sure you'll make enough money to warrant the effort.

That's not what your point d) says.

Previewing on Android: There is this http://code.google.com/p/android-ui-utils/

That guy's money will go somewhere eventually too, into local coffee shops, craft market, plasma TV.

Just because it goes somewhere, doesn't mean it goes to the right place.

But I don't want you to give money to the NRA (I assume that's the gun club), I would much rather you paid taxes.

I see the danger in the system you mention that lots of money will go to niche organisations out of proportion with societies requirements. Better to pay taxes in the hope that they are distributed where they are most needed.

yes, I do send more [than I could].

I could set up my salary through some finance companies in europe that help you keep up to 85% of your salary, but I don't.

d) ok, great! We'll all use off-shore companies to get our taxes down to a few %. Then let's see how we fund the NHS, roads, infrastructure, education, welfare and everything else you use daily that you don't pay for directly.

It's not so much the quest for the domain name, it's the energy spent at this stage on it.

A domain name won't make or break your business. But all that time and energy spent on this problem could probably have been spent better on something else.

If the reason is that you might get negative feedback in return, why not make both parties submit feedback blind and only publish the feedback once both parties have submitted it? (and make it not editable)

tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance on the scale of Amazon, Google, Starbucks and Facebook is imoral.

It's pretty obvious that these companies have been strategically set up in Ireland as a way of paying less tax.

You think it's acceptable that Amazon sold billions of pounds of items in the UK and pay virtually no tax, but still use our roads to facilitate those sales. They basically use our infrastructure for free.

Would Amazon let me use a few EC2 instances for nothing, by increasing the hosting cost of everyone one else by a few cents, to host my multi-million dollar website?

no.

I'm not suggesting that is why Dropbox are moving to Ireland. I'm saying that if that was the reason as brought up by the OP then they should be aware of current events in the UK where companies like Amazon are making billions of pounds in the UK and paying virtually no tax - even though they use our roads and infrastructure to conduct their business.

technically it's not illegal, but completely immoral. Imagine if I channelled all my PAYE taxes through an offshore company, who would pay for our health system, infrastructure etc.

I'm guessing he's actually referring to tax avoidance. Not sure how long it will last though as the UK is going be clamping down on this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20559791

I'd be interested in this too. I'd like to know if it's in a format where you could judge yourself/your own idea and see what score comes out.

But the reasons you're giving for saying "but I'd much rather never have a modal ever" are down to bad design decisions. In that sense any UI pattern could cause you the same reaction if used badly.

I don't think you can write of modals simply because you don't like how they are used in some cases.

For example, how do you feel about Pinterest using modals to expand on content?

Good on you for giving your hard work away.

I would make a suggestion though to tighten up those pixels in the demo png, the half pixels are making most icons look blurry http://cl.ly/image/093M0z0z3a2W

Why do you think that?