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This is a better article about skeuomorphism for those interested: http://www.andymangold.com/skeuomorphism-the-opiate-of-the-p... PS - Skeuomorphism definition: "Strictly speaking…

Bump is building an awesome design team. We are hiring interaction designers & visual designers - come join us.

Debatably, they got less than half the talent, thank you very much!

Also worth noting was once we made it through the 'first round' I sent an email asking some questions and got no reply...

Dear author: Please stop misusing 'less'. It should be _fewer_ disks, _fewer_ books. Fewer is for discrete things, less is for continuous. As in: fewer dollars, less money. http://…

mediocrity != good

Hm, I did a quick search, and it's missing all of the payment engines, and doesn't list popular Twitter URL shorteners like bit.ly

This execution isn't addressing the readers needs, but it would be interesting to see several different attempts at a redesign. It would be a fun challenge for interaction designer…

We do that as well.

They use free p2p payments as a loss leader to up-sell their credit cards. It's a pretty interesting model.

Um, early April Fools joke? Oh and did you go to the homepage: http://www.gicleelife.com ? I'm laughing, anyway.

Seafarers just makes the game bigger. Cities & Knights makes it more complex (as well as making it bigger).

Why is the first comment on all blog posts about magazines folding something along the lines of "oh no! I just paid $9 for a two year subscription!" $9 is less than most people pay…

You need to play with the 'cities and knights' extension. It makes the game more complex. Also try the board game Puerto Rico, which we're just getting into but seems pretty awesom…

There's no print version (yet!) but maybe one day I'll look at some print-on-demand services like lulu.

Cute idea, but I don't want to over-engineer... just add a date/time note somewhere on the letter and I can accommodate.

It is definitely valid to say that packaging helps sell a product. Think about the experience of receiving a product from Apple and you see the value of packaging. What is so inter…

So the answer is so obvious that any opposition isn't worth hearing, and no debate is necessary? You have your fingers in your ears.

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