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While readability is impressive, the zoom slider could use a slight tweak. It's far too easy to zoom out to the maximum setting when you meant to go one level up.

Looks fantastic. The removal of colons and parentheses makes this a net win over Sass, not even taking into account everything else. In a verbose and redundant-by-design language like CSS, anything which reduces the total number of keystrokes makes my fingers glad.

I prefer CloudApp (http://getcloudapp.com). There's almost no UI it at all: it just captures OS X screenshots and uploads them.

I gave Skitch three minutes and gave up. Its UI is far too complicated for what it does.

It's difficult to take this article seriously when it doesn't practice what it preaches.

Also, "pro's"?

The old Slashdot design bothered me so much I proposed a minimalist layout last year: http://nylira.com/p/slashdot

Thoughts on this one:

Slashdot's homepage is much cleaner than before, but the thick green bars denoting each story is visually oppressive. I understand that it's a branding element, but it hampers readability.

The fixed navigation annoys me, but that's a personal preference: I don't think the menus are important enough to be constantly on-screen.

I see they still haven't added a max-width to text columns either. It's difficult reading comments on a 1440px+ screen.

Cufon is great, but this something for manipulating individual characters.

To someone who recently bought and then gave up an iPhone, this essay really strikes a chord. I actually have time to think again.

Who downvoted this? UI/UX are not terms to be bandied around lightly. Just because you can make websites pretty doesn't mean you're an interface designer. There's a difference between graphic design (an appeal to emotion and aesthetics) and interactive design (the science of making interfaces easy and enjoyable to use).

The design is quite amateurish. The curvature of the header crowds out the (overly-busy) logo and makes me gag. The drop shadow for it cuts off abruptly at the sides, instead of fading into white. The 'S' for Nexus S is flimsy and generic. In fact, all the icons on the site are pretty ugly.

The site does have simplicity going for it. Apple just seems to execute so much better in this area.

It's too bad the site doesn't use high resolution textures for the iPhone 4. The site looks far sharper on my Macbook.

Learn a power tool like Sass, and you'll get your creativity back. I'm a designer who actually prefers coding CSS (via Sass) over Photoshop.

PS is incredibly awkward and unwieldy for web design. You don't realize it though, because there so few options for anything better. It was designed for photo editing and graphic work, not solving layout problems for a flexible medium like HTML.

Portfolio: http://nylira.com

A few sites:

http://riotactguild.com

http://nylira.com/p/2009

http://nylira.com/p/slashdot

Resume: http://nylira.com/p/cv

I'd rather be poor in 2100.

I'm a designer, and I built this for my friends: http://riotactguild.com Look me up if you're interested.

Chrome: Polyglot to help me learn hanzi, and ProxySwitchy to bypass the GFW

Take a look at this HN co-founder wish list: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgCvDTyBjHdOdDFfMEN...

The upscaled UI elements suggest a touch-based OS X in the near future. Anyone else think so?

I've been using http://matrix2.itasoftware.com for flexible flight searching. From the few minutes I have been playing with Adioso, it seems even better.

HTML4 resume: http://nylira.com/p/cv

View source and attempt to recreate websites you like. I suggest copying designs from other media too: there's plenty of untapped potential in print. Keep a scrapbook with bits of design you like looking at. You'll develop a personal style over time.

I do interface design as a living, and that's my tip.

Neural networks anyone?

These aren't really that useful. These layouts were designed for comic book panels, not for web-based content.

From the title, I thought this was going to be about blocking Reddit to improve productivity.

Differentiation is not design. See Cocoa/Cocoa Touch.

Too many tabs has never been an issue for me. Can anyone actually read more than one tab at once? If you're thinking of buying a DSLR, then focus on researching cameras. Close those tabs when you're done.

Exercise restraint, guys. Tab grouping is the classic engineer's solution to a non-problem.

I do freelance interface/product design. I hand code everything in Vim (yes, a designer who uses Vim). I love Sass and use it on every project I can. Some of my work:

http://riotactguild.com/guides

http://nylira.com/p/2009 (currently http://nylira.com)

http://nylira.com/p/corianderx/

If you're good, get in touch and maybe we can do something together.

BTW- Designers are easy to find. They just don't frequent Hacker News. =)

That site's "Share the Wealth" widget is quite something.

Coral cache: http://le.mu.rs.nyud.net/motherfucker/Index/Entries/2010/6/2...

Still takes forever to load, but you can speed up the process using Readability.

Took about fifteen hours, with far too much of it spent cleaning up the HTML. Hell is other people's code.

Written in Vim with Sass and a tiny grid framework I built. Check out the Sass source if you like: http://nylira.com/p/wikipedia/css/sass/screen.sass

Deployed with Github, just for the practice.

I have far too much time on my hands.