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Interesting that they took this approach primarily for email referencing. Is it that common of a use case that it's worth changing the entire experience around it (and collapsing the formatting bar, etc.)? I'm assuming they tested some sort of referencing UI in the existing compose screen. Wish I could see that. Also, I'm wondering how image insertion works; modals upon modals can be pretty awkward for users.

My real pet peeve: can we start removing "Compose" from email vocabulary?

Quite sure that news posted by YC companies is weighted higher than others (namely to promote job postings, product launches, and so forth).

Not a library, and not for graphing, but somewhat inspirational: http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/sketch/

According to research [1], fonts similar to this don't entirely do the trick, but they help with certain errors.

[1] http://www.ilo.gw.utwente.nl/ilo/attachments/032_Masterthesi... (page 3)

Since we're on the topic, there's also Tributary if you're doing d3 stuff. http://enjalot.com/

As a UX Designer, I'd say I've needed something like this: a true UI design app that only had the features I needed. None of Photoshop or Illustrator's extraneous features (with respect to a UI Designer's needs, anyway).

One thing that would definitely make me try it is a bundled/stock icon set that is well-integrated into the app. Finding open-license icons for my mockups (or drawing my own) is actually the most laborious part of my design process. If that was somehow shortened, or if I at least had inspiration built into my design tool, I'd be a happy camper.

No, I meant the cursor that's highlighting the current character. This could be my own vision problems, but the size of the text + color of the cursor + motion makes it slightly difficult to tell what character I'm supposed to type on the fly. I found myself stopping and squinting just to be sure. That's mainly why I recommended a fisheye - enlarging the current character would solve the problem, but perhaps it's not worth it for most users.

Beautiful app though!

Yep. I easily Swype without looking. There are occasional mistakes, but it requires very little concentration. Anyway, I think there's too much magic in Fleksy and requires a lot of faith/buy-in on the part of the user to trust it.

Cool? Still haven't decided if it's useful.

Anyway, the cursor occasionally obscures the character and slows you down. Might be worth testing out a fish-eye effect as the cursor scrolls so you clearly know what you need to type.

This is a decent list, but visual examples would help.

If anyone's interested, many of these ideas are derived from Nielsen's heuristics [1] as well as Tognazzini's [2].

[1] http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html

[2] http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html

Finally, someone gets rid of the "Compose" button.

I'm a UX Designer at the Wikimedia Foundation. We're starting to make big changes, mostly revolving around our 2015 strategy [1].

[1] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Startup request: Please, someone come up with a todo/productivity/project management system whose main feature is _motivation_ to use it, not just technical versions of paper todo lists. I don't know if the solution is necessarily technical. I've tried every major app and still rely on the visceral impact of post-it notes next to my computer to get things done. I'd love to switch to an app but nothing is actually making me use one.

I'd consider shortening that description a bit.

Agreed. What struck me most was how much care they put into the presentation of the framework, docs, and videos.

I'm really happy to see so many developers taking UX seriously, even if it's just for other developers. Quite a nice trend I'm seeing with libraries/frameworks these days.

At least it's looking better than Excite. http://excite.com/

Edit: Holy crap.

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Not to bug you with feature requests, but I think it would also be helpful to know which editors/users are verified attorneys - but I understand the complications and overhead involved with implementing that.

That said, terrific job. I could see myself being a paying customer (assuming you go that route). I think I'd just need some usage stats or perhaps testimonials from trusted parties to actually use a document.

Love it. Will a rating system be added? Would love to know which documents are better than others in a particular category.

In case you didn't see his bio, he's 18 years old. I'm not a fan of what he did, but frankly, his behavior is probably better than mine would've been at that age + circumstance.

Yup, perceived affordances. http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and_design.html

To be honest, the appearance of Bootstrap is what I like the least about it at this point. Too few people customize the UI, and we're seeing a lot of similar sites as a result. The last thing I want is to see more sites that look like Bootstrap. Might be interesting to start developing Bootstrap themes so we get some design variety yet keep the friendly gridding and robustness.

The Art of Readable Code is excellent.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Readable-Code-Dustin-Boswell/dp/05...

The biggest benefit I've seen out of Yammer is in the fact that it increased employee interaction, not just document sharing. After my company rolled it out, I was shocked at how many of us took to it. Everyone knows the reason: it looks and feels like Facebook. When we encounter that look and feel, our minds go into "sharing" mode. We get comfortable because it feels like a comfort zone. We share documents, but we also joke around more. Our interpersonal relationships got better, and I'm sure that had a positive impact on our work.

I don't think Google+ will have an equivalent effect because few people visit it habitually, and when they do, most posts are fairly formal/professional instead of playful/casual. Despite Google+'s intentions, it doesn't encourage a relaxed mindset.

Probably the reason he said:

"...I definitely would not suggest it for the Khan Academy's purposes"

I meant in lieu of having full access to their books.

Obviously measuring success by capital raised is silly. Is there a better alternative? Some function of pageviews (for more 'social' companies) vs. money raised? Tough to say.

In any case, I wouldn't read much into the OP.

Her point was that women have a choice, and by nature, women have different options than men. She did not say that all women should just sit at home having kids.

Generally, I agree with the article. But I've been seeing a lot of projects that lead me to believe developers are becoming more design-minded. Many new JS libraries, for example, are beautifully presented.

My hunch has always been that GitHub is setting a trend for OSS developers to present content to each other in a clean and pretty way. Hopefully that extends to the apps they create.

Agreed on overlaps. Circles are essentially tags/labels with a nicer UI. I wonder why tags are the chosen solution for _every_ classification task these days. They're great for information retrieval because they easily let you widen or narrow the scope of what you're looking for. But defining data permissions? Not so much. It feels like designers avoid hierarchal UI paradigms because they're old, but automated inheritance would've been nice on Google+.

As an Interaction Designer, I'd love to see a language that was built using UX methods and patterns (e.g. user research, usability testing, designing for visual perception). It probably won't produce linguistic innovations, but it could be a way to advance productivity and developer experience.