OT: The moving image behind text that visitors are trying to read is the worst design trend since carousels (aka sliders).
Unshackled – Funding for immigrant founders with US work visas
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Re: Unshackled – Funding for immigrant founders with US work visas
#12Saw this on Techcrunch. Are you solely funding only immigrants and or a team with one or more immigrants? Do you consider a team of US citizens?
>>Do you consider a team of US citizens?
According to their FAQ, they do.
But it is supposed to be a company that is helping immigrants who want to start companies but can't due to legal reasons. That is massive pool of very hard working people, who are moving mountains else where for pennies. If you can direct the same monumental effort towards something more constructive, that would be a lot more profitable. Hence tapping into that talent pool.
But if you had an idea to build the next Google, Twitter or Facebook, I guess they would be more than willing to listen.
But then if you truly had such an idea, and are a US citizen why would you need them?
Re: Unshackled – Funding for immigrant founders with US work visas
#13OT: The moving image behind text that visitors are trying to read is the worst design trend since carousels (aka sliders).
Perhaps you haven't seen parallax websites.
Re: Unshackled – Funding for immigrant founders with US work visas
#14OT: The moving image behind text that visitors are trying to read is the worst design trend since carousels (aka sliders).
Perhaps you haven't seen parallax websites.
I've seen two variants of parallax - parallax scrolling (which is fine) and parallax videos that play behind text. When you're trying to read text, having a moving image behind the text makes it harder to read. It looks cool, but it's a bad design. And not just for the readability issues, but also due to the loading. For example, PayPal has it on their front page now. I used to be able to go to PayPal and immediately click the login button. Now I have to wait for the loading to finish. It's annoying.
Re: Unshackled – Funding for immigrant founders with US work visas
#15This is an excellent hack if it holds up on the legal fronts! There might be constraints, which I have not seen called out yet, such as - a H1B visa holder having to be employed in their field of specialization, hence the H1B founder will need to startup in said field. But the constraints appear trivial in comparison to the problem being solved. This is exciting!
Not only that!. Companies that sponsor an H1B person need to "show" proof that they have attempted to hire a US person before they can turn to sponsor an in immigrant.
Re: Unshackled – Funding for immigrant founders with US work visas
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps you haven't seen parallax websites.
I've seen two variants of parallax - parallax scrolling (which is fine) and parallax videos that play behind text. When you're trying to read text, having a moving image behind the text makes it harder to read. It looks cool, but it's a bad design. And not just for the readability issues, but also due to the loading. For example, PayPal has it on their front page now. I used to be able to go to PayPal and immediately…
I find parallax scrolling to be ineffective. Call me old school but it takes a well understood action (scrolling) and overloads it to perform animations. Animations which often times do not add much value besides "flair". An ineffective tradeoff in my opinion.
And yes, videos behind text is absurd :).