I really love this idea and greatly appreciate the brevity in implementation, the sales pitch, and the landing page. If I had one suggestion it would be a slightly different visual treatment so as to not conflate it with battery percentage so easily. Maybe small clock icon in the middle of the bar or something.
I consider myself a big fan of design tools. I really want to try yours, but I can't bring myself to pay for a beta. I might consider a paid trial ($5/2 weeks) or something, since I appreciate your transparency and cause. Just some feedback is that despite the transparency and your willingness to refund no questions asked, I still am having trouble getting over the mental barrier
There's lots of talk about controlling the user experience and doing UI experiments on the landing page and no instance of direct marketing to UX professionals. How come? Just curious.
I wouldn't concern yourself too much with feeling like damaged goods. It's very easy to feel that way after a period of several or many rejections, but that's probably not the actual case here.
In this instance, it might just be a matter of not finding a good remote match. That can be tricky. I was job hunting for a few months last year and was solely focused on obtaining a remote job but couldn't find one that fit. The only people who seemed very interested enough to take it to a final round interview were paying ~10-15k market rate for my area. And so I'm not working remote. Happy at my current job, but still. I got summarily rejected from a lot of remote gigs I felt I was absolutely very qualified for.
I've been learning fundamental concepts of web development coming from UX for a couple years now and this text has been absolutely instrumental in my learning. Highly recommended!
The UI specs I ship get built out by a team in India and I get to review it once a week. They record a demo on video and send it to me overnight. It's the only thing we can reconcile with the time difference, since I am not able to access the staging environment (for reasons made unclear to me).
I think this is a WONDERFUL idea, and executed incredibly well. This is a big help to me as I consider asking good questions a flaw in my interviewing game, and I'm aware that it has lead me to miss some really glaring flaws. I love the UX, too. All around great!
As a designer I always recommend https://feathericons.com/ as an alternative to font awesome. All SVG, all with uniform sizing and a pretty diverse selection - not as diverse as FA, but still. Very pretty and not as widely adopted as FA.
Thanks, that's interesting. I have moved around a lot, so I'm used to adjustments there, I'm just concerned with moving to a small rural town here in Texas and being 3-4 hours away from the few friends family we do have left.
Here's a question about adjustment to rural life, because I have been daydreaming about this for a long time: Are you now isolated from existing friends and family? That's really my one big worry.
I'm super burned out on software, and currently facing all the same concerns it sounds like you did before, it just frightens me the idea of being further removed (geographically) from the few family and friends we have left.
I've been an interface designer for web and mobile apps for about 6-7 years now. I really want to design interfaces in this sort of context (flight, space flight, ground control, etc). Any advice?
Yep, same. My mother's best friend worked for MS at the time and brought me home VB4 in a giant box. Little did they know what I was up to (nothing too south of innocuous, I was mostly trying to spam render middle fingers in ASCII in AOL chatrooms)
OT, but I have to imagine (as someone who has visited Livingston) that you might well be the only person to ever grow up in Scotland and live in Livingston for 20 years. Kinda interesting.
I can't reply to your latest comment, presumably to some stupid pander-y HN ethics rule, but I've seen plenty of people who warn/ask the person behind them that they're going to recline. It's simple courtesy. To be honest, the fact that this doesn't even process with you makes you sound awful to deal with in any sort of transaction.
The least you could do is acknowledge to the person behind you that you're about to do it. You're acting as if you're being told to file a permit. On the contrary, it's pretty common courtesy.
If you are a tall person, the reclined seat jams into your knees. Talk to me about your lack of reclining being worse when you literally can't move your knees for 4 hours because there's a hard piece of plastic jammed into your kneecaps. I'm 6'2'' which is tall but not unreasonably tall.
I was a super early adopter and couldn't agree more. I was also pretty young at the time and really only had that one checking account as a source of money, and their failures at being a bank really screwed me over. I can remember being in line trying to pay for $200 worth of groceries and getting declined (despite having well over that available in my checking account). The reason was eventually cited to me as a "technical glitch" after I had to call their after-hours "emergency line" and wait for a callback standing next to my groceries for a half hour.
The mobile experience was really great though, and I like that they automatically accounted for things like tips in your available balance to give a clearer picture of available funds.