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Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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Post by bradfordcross »

emcl wrote: post #9

OT, Prismatic is impressive in the choice of articles it displays. So much so that i have noticed it's getting a bit creepy. On some days when i happen to open a lot of pages on a particular topic, Prismatic will start showing me related stories. So is it tracking histories? Do all such services track online usage?

Prismatic learns from everything you do. We have implicit signals (when you recommend, share, shave, remove, or click), and explicit signals, when you follow topics, publishers, or people. We know more about your interests than anyone, and you can expect that to be more true over time. Fortunately, we are only partially evil, so we mostly use this information to make your life more interesting, and only occasionally, we will use it to troll your newsfeed! :-P

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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Post by emcl »

bradfordcross wrote: post #21
emcl wrote: post #9

OT, Prismatic is impressive in the choice of articles it displays. So much so that i have noticed it's getting a bit creepy. On some days when i happen to open a lot of pages on a particular topic, Prismatic will start showing me related stories. So is it tracking histories? Do all such services track online usage?

Prismatic learns from everything you do. We have implicit signals (when you recommend, share, shave, remove, or click), and explicit signals, when you follow topics, publishers, or people. We know more about your interests than anyone, and you can expect that to be more true over time. Fortunately, we are only partially evil, so we mostly use this information to make your life more interesting, and only occasionally,…

I'm OK with Prismatic using information from twitter and any activity on getprismatic, and but i would not share the rest of my browser usage. For instance there was this day when i was reading up on XML on the browser and opened a bunch of pages on it. Then i fire up getprismatic and lo and behold! i find XML tagged suggestion. That was spooky;)

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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Post by bradfordcross »

brcrth wrote: post #23

So much better now. My only complain is that when you shrink your browser window you lose the interests section, which I visit all the time for specific news.

We want to understand exactly what you mean. Can you please send a screenshot to feedback@getprismatic.com ?

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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Post by melchebo »

bradfordcross wrote: post #7
jagira wrote: post #2

DAE hate their font choice? I guess the previous font stack of sans-serif/verdana fonts looked better.

What in particular do you dislike?

I'm not OP, but in general you don't want to use serif fonts on (72dpi) LCDs. Maybe you all have retina display screens at work, on but regular low resolution screens serif fonts slow down reading speed.

See this site for example.

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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Post by bradfordcross »

emcl wrote: post #22
bradfordcross wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prismatic learns from everything you do. We have implicit signals (when you recommend, share, shave, remove, or click), and explicit signals, when you follow topics, publishers, or people. We know more about your interests than anyone, and you can expect that to be more true over time. Fortunately, we are only partially evil, so we mostly use this information to make your life more interesting, and only occasionally,…

I'm OK with Prismatic using information from twitter and any activity on getprismatic, and but i would not share the rest of my browser usage. For instance there was this day when i was reading up on XML on the browser and opened a bunch of pages on it. Then i fire up getprismatic and lo and behold! i find XML tagged suggestion. That was spooky;)

we don't look at browser history, but we may release a browser plugin for chrome that lets you share, recommend, and save stories from the web to prismatic.

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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Post by bjtitus »

bradfordcross wrote: post #7
jagira wrote: post #2

DAE hate their font choice? I guess the previous font stack of sans-serif/verdana fonts looked better.

What in particular do you dislike?

Seems much less readable and I wasn't particularly thrilled with the reasoning that it was "more modern" than the previous font. Readability is more important to me in a news app than modern font choice.
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