How is this different than a custom PS action?
Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
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Re: Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
#22What's with the copy? This is a useful service, no need to be sarcastic.
> This is a useful service
Only if you are trying to make an otherwise unremarkable design look much better than it is. This is gimmicky and misleading. This is what's been ruining Behance and Dribbble for a while now, pushing total crap to the front page just because it looks pretty and forcing others to focus on superficial decoration rather than on actually important parts like interaction and convenience.
The copy is spot on and sarcasm is well justified. Well done, OP.
Re: Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
#23Why would anyone buy this when you can just use a Photoshop action like [1] to do the same thing? [1] https://dribbble.com/shots/984999-Perspective-Mockup-Photosh...
If you'd read the copy you'd realise it's designed by Blaz (from Dribbble), I'm just posting on his behalf :) Edit: it was really just a way to start building photoshop plugins to see what the ecosystem is like, we've got 4 new plugins that are actually useful for a wife audience coming out soon.
> we've got 4 new plugins that are actually useful for a wife audience
Wait, what?
Re: Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
#24It's somewhat of an indictment of our industry that I genuinely can't tell whether this is clever, semi-ironic marketing for a real product or flat-out satire.
Indeed.
Internet culture is pretty self referential, and I think the culture of the internet extends to the tech industry (and vice versa). I don't think it works all that well in marketing, but I wish it did!
A sense of humor is a good thing and can be extremely powerful in marketing. But self referential humor is often too niche unless you really really know your target audience and you're reasonably sure they'll get the joke.
For the record, it's marketing for a real product. I think hipsters are becoming overrepresented in tech marketing though, haha.
Re: Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
#25It's somewhat of an indictment of our industry that I genuinely can't tell whether this is clever, semi-ironic marketing for a real product or flat-out satire.
I tried buying it (with an empty form) and got:
Error: This discount is invalid. Error: One or more of the discounts you entered is invalid Error: Enter an email Error: Please enter a valid email address Error: Please enter your first name
I still can't tell if it's real or not. If this is a parody of random CRUD apps, it's spot on :)
Re: Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
#26What's with the copy? This is a useful service, no need to be sarcastic.
If it's useful and the copy is meant to appeal to its target demographic, what's wrong with that? Clearly a lot of potential buyers seem to be appreciating the humor...
Re: Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
#27> this panel stays with you like a bad STD Wait, is this an actual product or is it a satire on the sad state of our industry?
No.
Re: Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you'd read the copy you'd realise it's designed by Blaz (from Dribbble), I'm just posting on his behalf :) Edit: it was really just a way to start building photoshop plugins to see what the ecosystem is like, we've got 4 new plugins that are actually useful for a wife audience coming out soon.
> we've got 4 new plugins that are actually useful for a wife audience Wait, what?
yes... probably later this year they will also release something for the north hemisphere whites
Re: Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
#29What I like about skewed-perspective screenshots is that you can't really see the screens properly.
I guess that's the reason to do it. Hei... stop looking at the product and check out this fancy effects.
Re: Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
#30Well...can't say you've done a great job targeting folks related to slaves or folks with STDs, but at least the site looks good?
Even as small as this, racist and ableist statements are inappropriate and alienating. Punch up, not down.
http://reasonableconversation.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/punch...