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I wanna work at Instagram
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#62Great initiative. All employers should want to have such enthusiastic applicants. I'm not sure whether her design is "good" or whether her other attributes line up with what they're looking for, but A+ for effort, nonetheless.
I agree. I think any employer would be flattered with such a targeted application. But I think it could be better if she listed benefits she could bring Instagram, rather than her personality traits. She does link to a very nice resume that has more content.
It's targeted in one way, and in one way only: via mention. Sure, the domain name includes the word "Instagram." Similarly, it's in the page's title.
However, the connection is surprisingly superficial. As you point out, she offers a comically generic application and then emphasizes that, you know, working at Instagram would be, like, cool. I find that a little cynical.
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#63I'd just like to put it out there that when I run a company we will automatically disqualify anyone who tries to get a job w/ us in this way. So remember that if you'd like to work for me sometime in the near future.
So, you will discourage applicants from creating targeted webpages both expressing their love for your product (giving you more exposure) as well as doing something extra to stand out? Harsh.
Employees who love their own product are a cancer that must be treated. Complacency with a product necessarily leads to a dangerous inability to find ways to improve upon it.
I do speak from long experience, here. This isn't a crazy idea I read out of a dogfooding blog entry.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment fails the "say it to my face" guideline. I certainly wouldn't vote this stuff up, but no need to be rude about it. (Edit: also, why keep downvoting him, I think he probably gets the idea already)
the "say it to my face" rule? what's that?
If you wouldn't say it to my face, don't say it here. Pretty simple concept. I'm sad to see your only contributions here have been negative comments, all but one of which were on this story. People on Hacker News don't discourage criticism, but do prefer that it is done politely, and with reason.
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#65At this point, there's nothing innovative or quirky about "active applications." Especially if they're rather mediocre. EDIT: After looking through the whole thing, I have to revise my opinion. It doesn't even qualify as mediocre -- copy and design are surprisingly awful. Large quantities of pseudo-charming nonsense ("I'm vehement about creating kick-ass interactions", "i can write a mean agile spec, and i’m comforta…
The design is surprisingly awful? What? I can only assume you're talking about the graphics and layout (unless we talk about 'attitude design' now or something). I thought that part of the site was excellent (original and pretty), although I didn't care for the content admittedly (except the word 'vehement' cracked me up, and 'LOL - I'm Funny').
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#66While I like the initiative, I'm a little worried that someone who says she's a UX designer wouldn't have considered that most Mac users do not run their browsers full-screen, so there's a horizontal scroll bar for anything less than a 1024 width (I think it's 1024). That's not a good UX!
Is the lack of a working maximize button good UX?
Get the app "Cinch" from the app store if you're on OSX, and especially if you're on a big monitor. It's frankly better than a maximize button, as it also lets you do side-by-side half screen windows.
(I am not associated with this app, just a happy customer.)
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#67Don't want to sound rude, but the lens ("I made this") has pretty bad type work. Kerning is off, the curve is not right ( http://i.imgur.com/tpDqv.png ). The drop shadow is also strange. Overall, there's not enough attention to detail.
I would never want to work with someone as negative as you.
I'm not sure I understand: are employers supposed to be positive and not critical when hiring people?
It's a designer showing her work to a potential employer. I made a comment that her work is not yet good enough, there are certainly areas which she can improve.
As for your ad hominem: I'm not actually a negative person.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the lack of a working maximize button good UX?
Although I highly agree with you on how Apple messed up by making "maximizing" such a pain, at the same time, I (not a Mac user, but had to use one for work for around 5 months) almost never have my browser maximized, even when on multiple screens. So it's still a valid point that Lewisham brought up. This website gives the impression that she still needs some practice in her UX design skills.
I actually think Apple got the maximize button right (at least from the perspective of higher resolution displays).
The maximize button for browsers on Mac's maximizes the browser window to fit the content within the page. That is exactly how I want it to work when working with higher resolutions. Never do I want to maximize my browser to my 1920x1080 resolution.
I could see that while that solution is great for larger resolutions it may be non-optimal for smaller one's so maybe adding a system wide toggle switch would be ideal.
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#69Love the ambition, but I'm curious why her portfolio work isn't nearly as good as this site.
When you're a relatively young, novice designer, one would hope that the last thing you made is usually better than the older stuff in your portfolio.
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#70Nice application.
Maybe Instagram will be a springboard to something bigger, because I can't see them being a whole lot with their limited platform deployment.