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I work in a highly competitive industry, and often get this question at networking events and conferences from people in my industry. I like to see them succeed, so I give them thi…

sigh yet another failure of web standards and browsers to address the most basic requirements of designers. HTML was originally intended for academics creating standardized documen…

That was agonizing to watch. He spends way too much time on tiny details and adjustments before even knowing if the basic layout is going to work.

Going off this 'starter guide', a Product Guy is basically taking your most junior, inexperienced designer/developer and putting them in charge?

Agreed, but Carter was the first neoliberal president.

For every hooligan on the street, there are 10 friends and family at home, but shrugging their shoulders at the violence because they have no stake in society. "Let them burn it do…

But why is a reminder is needed? If you exclude computer science, women received the majority of bachelor's degrees in science since the late 80s. It was 60% in 2008 and probably e…

You work 8 hours a day, then come home and study for 8 hours, which is really just more work for your employer. Life-long education is starting to sound like a prescription for non…

All true. Today's middle class are forced to act like newly-arrived immigrants, turning back the clock on decades of progress and rising living standards.

Yes, Zizek has very little respect for conventions of academia.

One can't help but wonder if it is not a coincidence that the average reading level of the comments written by my esteemed fellow HN members--as measured by such instruments as the…

I agree, it's totally outrageous that people with "backgrounds in sociology and political philosophy" are preying on our most vulnerable global corporations and infiltrating their …

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=user+experience+designer

892 unique ways to partition a 3x4 grid: http://www.dubberly.com/concept-maps/3x4grid.html They also have an interactive tool that generates HTML/CSS: http://www.3x4grid.com

Could you explain the difference between "understands design" and being a designer?

As a designer, I'm not very concerned about spec work. The wide availability of cheap desktop publishing software could have made design as a profession vanish because it gave peop…

It sounds like you're talking about usefulness, not usability. In HCI/UX circles, the classic catchphrase is "useful, usable, desirable."

It's OK as a logo, except for the inconsistent light source on the shadows. As a toolbar icon, it seems like they decided to redesign it so that it violates every OS icon guideline…

"Many designers or agencies might scoff at the notion of a “non-designer” being able to learn and understand the principles to help them arrive at a design." They would, except tha…

This is a good example of how A/B testing the wrong things can kill your product.

I write all my PDFs directly in PostScript instead of using InDesign or Illustrator, because that way it's breathing instead of catatonic or whatever.

Actual data: "even after accounting for the value of retirement, healthcare, and other benefits, state and local employees earn less than private sector counterparts. On average, t…

A lot of these salaries are in the Corrections department. The US didn't get to be the world's #1 jailer for free, guys!

Evidence that these failures are due to Apple's blindspot of being too controlling?