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Comment #48364880
well this is not exactly unique to software. It is not a given that the 'handmade' nature of a product (luxury or otherwise) manifests in anything tangible or self-evidently superi…
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Comment #41166553
using text would lay bare the silliness of the radial menu pattern - it either wouldnt fit neatly into the circular containers or, if conformed to the curvature of the radial menu,…
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Comment #41166532
this approach is definitely more usable. radial menus only make ergonomic sense on ie game controllers. with a mouse it becomes a high precision action to use, plus poor accessibil…
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Comment #40924432
complete disaster. terrible for your skin, feels gross, falls apart, and cannot be repaired. meanwhile my cotton pants that have been repaired many times are still treasured wardro…
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Comment #40782616
rounded corners are actually a significant accessibility factor and powerful gestalt mechanism in design. The border radius of a rounded rect makes it discernable at a glance the b…
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Comment #40422120
expecting to use cm/in for digital design is ludicrous.
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Comment #40151488
(seemingly few) People bash it because its just writing regular css but objectively worse and incorrect. if you can write tw you can write css. if you can write css theres no valid…
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Comment #40029521
pdfs are categorically not the appropriate medium for this.
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Comment #39890834
the kiosk factor is great to hear. Ive tourguided foreigners around several times in the past and having to wait on them to do everything seperately in the office always took the w…
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Comment #39889136
the JR pass is almost never a good deal. you need to do a significant amount of travel over a significant distance in a short amount of time and is a very inconvenient way to trave…
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Comment #39366592
it is not only doable (trivially so for most static sites) but also the only appropriate model for delivering websites/software.
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Comment #39364568
you can do everything you just mentioned with grid more reliably and by writing significantly less css than the flex method.
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Comment #39363802
was just thinking this. work on a variety of complex webapps across multiple frameworks and you'd never catch me dead using css-in-js or a preprocessor.
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Comment #39363478
I too love flex but your comment is a bit off. bootstraps grid system is a fake grid modelled on flex. building layout grids with flex in general is definitely not endgame, its act…
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Comment #39363438
justify/align and content/items have specific meanings and the 'intuitive' naming most people expect - horizontal, vertical - completely betrays the powerful elegance of the flex m…
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Comment #39351658
colorblindness would have no effect on this ux pattern