Tip: make your lesson 1 a "free demo" or something if you want to get more people interested! (the only reason I didn't say "fuck this" and moved on after amazon said it won't stream the video to me because I'm not in the US was because I happened to remember the Helvetica documentary and thought maybe it's worth the pain...)
An easy to follow design course for programmers
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Re: An easy to follow design course for programmers
#42I tried to watch the first video but I cannot use netflix in my country. No problem, let's watch the youtube playlist"The uploader has not made this video available in your country." Ok, I will rent it on youtube: "This movie is not available in your country." And then they ask why the people use the pirate bay...
They seem to have added more links: http://www.amazon.com/Objectified/dp/B002SOUVKU/ http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/stream/
The Amazon link don't work internationally I think. I can't download because "It is only available on US".
The objectifiedfilm works fine though. Downloading right now...
Re: An easy to follow design course for programmers
#43I hate to be "that guy" but I'm genuinely having a hard time reading this page. * thin white text on light grey buttons * thin light grey text on almost matching light grey background (anti-spam message below email input) * small thin light grey text on white background * on highlight, dark grey text on... burnt orange?! I'm in the target market for this program -- a developer whose design skills are pretty weak -- b…
UPDATE: Either the maintainers are responding to feedback or, as speculated downthread, some A/B testing is going on. If the latter is the case, pick B, for the love of all that is holy!
Re: An easy to follow design course for programmers
#44I hate to be "that guy" but I'm genuinely having a hard time reading this page. * thin white text on light grey buttons * thin light grey text on almost matching light grey background (anti-spam message below email input) * small thin light grey text on white background * on highlight, dark grey text on... burnt orange?! I'm in the target market for this program -- a developer whose design skills are pretty weak -- b…
UPDATE: Either the maintainers are responding to feedback or, as speculated downthread, some A/B testing is going on. If the latter is the case, pick B, for the love of all that is holy!
Responding to feedback because I love you and you were right.
Re: An easy to follow design course for programmers
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly, why is this content available to US users for free (via Youtube) but I have to pay because I'm outside of the US ? I guess it's to do with youtube ad revenues for US impressions but as a customer it makes me feel a bit shafted considering that you will, in no way, make $3.99 from a single US user watching this on youtube. However, I appreciate that you're doing this course for 'free' and I do think it's a gr…
It really sucks. In fact, I wholly believe that many people will turn away from Hack Design because there's essentially a paywall right out of the gate. I don't regret my choice to start with this film, though. Objectified had a profound impact on me as a designer. I first watched it in a slump of disenchantment that my "web design" skills would never amount to anything valuable or earth-shattering. This film gave me…
I'm glad that Objectified seems to have had such a large impact on you, but this really isn't a good way of starting this course, or any course for that matter. Reading Dieter Rams' ten principles of "good design"[1] would be much more practical.
Also, if the site is going to be focused on helping people with design, you should make sure the design of the actual site is good. Few issues that I saw:
-404 page should at least have the logo to know you're still on the same site
-/courses & /lessons/0 should have the full logo with the page title elsewhere
-Log in page animation does nothing for design and can confuse people into thinking they can type after the text
-Has already been mentioned, but the contrast in some areas could use work. Tasks for example should be the main focus point, yet the text is light grey.
-Using social media icons everywhere takes away from design IMO
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams#Rams.27_ten_princip...
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly, why is this content available to US users for free (via Youtube) but I have to pay because I'm outside of the US ? I guess it's to do with youtube ad revenues for US impressions but as a customer it makes me feel a bit shafted considering that you will, in no way, make $3.99 from a single US user watching this on youtube. However, I appreciate that you're doing this course for 'free' and I do think it's a gr…
It really sucks. In fact, I wholly believe that many people will turn away from Hack Design because there's essentially a paywall right out of the gate. I don't regret my choice to start with this film, though. Objectified had a profound impact on me as a designer. I first watched it in a slump of disenchantment that my "web design" skills would never amount to anything valuable or earth-shattering. This film gave me…
If it wasn't for the conversation here on HN, I would have assumed the whole site was just a referral-scam. Not just a paywall, but a scam, since there is zero warning upfront until after you've subscribed.
And please, unless what you do is explicitly aimed at the US, treat all users as equal. We're not "international users", just list the options equally for everyone.
Re: An easy to follow design course for programmers
#47I was all excited and then ... Seriously? Objectified is your first lesson?
http://www.amazon.com/Objectified/product-reviews/B002SOUVKU...
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#48In case anybody is not aware, TreeHouse has a lot of design courses available for free.
http://teamtreehouse.com/library
I am in Singapore and as like other people here, has hit a pay-wall. The issue is at the landing page, it says: "Receive a design course in your inbox each week" which gives me an impression these courses are free. I understand good things usually aren't free, but not saying it up front until I gave my email address is something that I don't like. Therefore, I am not going back
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many requests per second do you think a website needs to be capable of serving to handle the traffic from HN? (Performance newbie here)
Well, it depends on the site in question, of course. But we can make some estimates, if you want. In the past, I've talked to some colleagues who've had content hit the front page here, and they reported numbers ranging from around 1,000 unique visitors to about 30,000 visitors over a one-day period. So it can vary quite a bit, apparently. Let's assume that things are more intense than that, and go with 50,000 or so…
I doubt that requests are that evenly distributed on a second by second basis so peak response rates might be a few times that for some seconds.
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#50You should also be giving those avatars height attributes. When some of them load in slower (Also, I see you're loading them @2x, essentially), it shifts the formatting of the page a bit.