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You will be surprised about how many people actually know that you can change your default fonts on browser. For normal non-nerd users, you make choice of good defaults.

That's why VIM is not MS Word.

kingsidharthon Stop Using Arial & Helvetica

Much of UX design is suck. People can't tell a difference, not at least in detail. If I were to change color of a button, maybe you'd think no one cared.

But such things do make a difference.

kingsidharthon Stop Using Arial & Helvetica

1. Have you read the article? It's not Arial "OR" Helvetica.

2. Click on the screenshots to see them fullsize.

kingsidharthon Stop Using Arial & Helvetica

Keeping that one bit away: http://ilovetypography.com/2007/10/06/arial-versus-helvetica...

That's not the main topic of the writing :)

kingsidharthon Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (2011)

Add flat UI to the list. The only thing that's saving it is better typography and better sense of spacing (since designers are more involved now).

It's a step back in terms of usability as well. In flat UI, clickable and unclickable often look the same and several other problems.

kingsidharthon What are Business Co-Founders and Business People for?

The article was intended for very specific audience, for very specific context. It's not telling a tale of everyone under the sun.

Thanks.

kingsidharthon What are Business Co-Founders and Business People for?

I should probably use <joke> </joke> from now on.

kingsidharthon HN Meetup, New Delhi

There are HN'ers in my hometown? :O

kingsidharthon HN Meetup, New Delhi

Most probably I will join in.

kingsidharthon Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation

Don't just down vote, answer the question?

kingsidharthon Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation

So by this math, if I buy a company's 0.001% for $1000 its valuation becomes $1B? huh!

kingsidharthon Stypi (YC S11) has been acquired by Salesforce

Sort of saddens me,these guys came to pick-up where Etherpad guys left and change the online writing. And after first release there was no major update.

kingsidharthon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2012)

Seeking Work Remote

UX Designer

Portfolio: http://www.64notes.com/design/portfolio

kingsidharthon When Will The Social Sharing Button Madness Stop

And sells your data too.

kingsidharthon [dead]

It just came back, India.

kingsidharthon Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application

> some are better than others

No they are not. Some are more * preferred * by you than others. Personally I find such metaphor to be engaging & expressive. I love @holman 's writing for same reason. But that doesn't mean one is better over the other.

Writing style is form of art & expression. The quality of an art piece is determined by how well it is expressed and formal technicalities. So as long as his expression is in place, and grammar is sound - it's good art.

kingsidharthon Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application

> The style of this post is a bit 'wild' but ...

So? Is that bad? Everyone has their own way of expressing. Some herein declare that electronic mail is not flawed. Some say that email is not broken. Some just say that email doesn't need dick-sucking.

kingsidharthon Google+ gets a redesign

http://37signals.com

http://facebook.com (Lucida Grande is a fab choice)

http://readability.com - one of the key things this app changes is typography.

Check out default typography on thesis theme - http://64notes.com/thesis

Examples of bad typography:

google groups, Google Plus

http://wierd.com

I've many more if you want.

kingsidharthon Google+ gets a redesign

I hope they fix their typography too. Arial is not the way to go, especially when you allow paragraphs as posts (or essays). Line-height makes it even worse. </designer's-rant>

kingsidharthon Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."

> but there's something wrong with people liking camp because they're supposed to like camp.

You can say that about anything, "But there's something wrong with people liking grapes because they're supposed to like grapes.

Re: Stallman's statement - Maybe you don't like grapes, but calling it a mass-conspiracy to manipulate / document genetic information is a far cry.

kingsidharthon Show HN: Q&A for HN users

So Quora for Hacker News?

kingsidharthon Paypal Does it Again

True, people downvote if they don't agree. without even giving a reason. While downvoting should be for eliminating spam and comments that don't add to discussion.

kingsidharthon HireArt (YC W12) Helps employers screen job applicants through work samples

That's where kerning comes in. It's a designer's job to manage the spacing manually.