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Re: Hacker News Redesign

#91

Post by nwienert »

astral303 wrote: post #5

Sorry, but I don't like it. I do like the top header and the color scheme in general. The texture in the header looks snazzy, in a good way. The space wasted by the listing of stories is very excessive. That's the meat and potatoes of the site, yet I see 10 stories in the first screenfold vs 24 now. Why dedicate so much space to the wide "XX points" label? Is it even clickable (why would it be?) Arguably upvoting a s…

This did inspire me to try a more aligned yet compact redesign:

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest (HN Aligned)

Re: Hacker News Redesign

#92

Post by pacomerh »

I honestly don't think HN needs a redesign in that sense (if at all). The mockup proposed here is a nice design for another kind of application, it's kinda safe and soft. My bet is that HN would benefit more from a data oriented redesign where users see the stories and their stats more like a work sheet than a pretty web page. Dynamic data is what users would be interested in, not bubbles and double spaced rows.

Re: Hacker News Redesign

#96

Post by X-Istence »

nwienert wrote: post #91
astral303 wrote: post #5

Sorry, but I don't like it. I do like the top header and the color scheme in general. The texture in the header looks snazzy, in a good way. The space wasted by the listing of stories is very excessive. That's the meat and potatoes of the site, yet I see 10 stories in the first screenfold vs 24 now. Why dedicate so much space to the wide "XX points" label? Is it even clickable (why would it be?) Arguably upvoting a s…

This did inspire me to try a more aligned yet compact redesign: http://news.ycombinator.com/newest (HN Aligned)

Instead of linking to the newest page on HN, how about linking directly to the content.

In this case: http://natewienert.com/hackernew

I understand you won't get nearly as much "karma" for linking to website in a comment as you would if you hit the frontpage, but now I had to go looking for your article in the long list of articles on the newest page with no real gain.

Re: Hacker News Redesign

#97

Post by nwienert »

alanh wrote: post #74
mortenjorck wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I kept reading down the page hoping to see the reasoning behind the choices made, but was disappointed to find none. This is why I disagree with the notion that style is only skin-deep. It's an integral part of UX, but only when considered within the framework of UX. The points value is now shaded in 3D: Why? The rank is now an orange circle: How does this help the user? The best visual design is always based on UX.…

> This is why I disagree with the notion that style is only skin-deep. Semantics, but I think you are agreeing with your parent that there should be something deeper than the gloss applied in this redesign. That design must go more than skin-deep. Arguably the word “style” could refer to paint jobs, so your statement was fairly confusing. I fully agree with your comments regarding the bizarre amount of visual attenti…

Tried out a more semantic redesign inspired by original submission, OP comment, and the attached screen:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3870982

Re: Hacker News Redesign

#98

Post by BryanB55 »

DanBC wrote: post #55
BryanB55 wrote: post #48

Regardless if you like this design or not, I think HackerNews does need some kind of redesign. I can remember when I first started reading there were a lot of things that just weren't intuitive to me. I always wondered why a site for "hackers" and "coders" seemed so basic in features and looked like something from the 90's. Particularly, the login and password reset seems kind of difficult to use. Is there no RSS fee…

There are documentation pages which explain the features you're asking about. Also, search now works. This may seem really unfriendly, but perhaps friction is sometimes a good thing? RTFM and "use search" have been the grumpy welcome of hacker communities for many years, so I guess that's something that has carried over? The bottom of this page explains the max visits minaway stuff: ( http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.h…

I guess some of it is simply opinion and personal preferences. In my opinion, good UI doesn't require users to go searching for documentation pages.

Re: Hacker News Redesign

#99

Post by SkyMarshal »

SeoxyS wrote: post #12

I'm sorry, but this is a perfect example of the difference between design and eye candy. Often, people wonder why I spend $50,000 a year going to design school, when I can learn how to make things that are just as shiny by reading psdtuts.com. The difference is that style is only skin-deep. It's superficial. It's an added bonus on top of design . Design, on the other hand, is the core of the product: how it functions…

>Note: Check out this redesign, which I think is quite effective, and is installable as a extra stylesheet on the current HN code: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/Hacker_News-20120420-180413.png

That's really nice. It's not clear where the stylesheet is though. I'd love to use it, where might it be?

Re: Hacker News Redesign

#100

Post by fsniper »

notlisted wrote: post #73
SeoxyS wrote: post #12

I'm sorry, but this is a perfect example of the difference between design and eye candy. Often, people wonder why I spend $50,000 a year going to design school, when I can learn how to make things that are just as shiny by reading psdtuts.com. The difference is that style is only skin-deep. It's superficial. It's an added bonus on top of design . Design, on the other hand, is the core of the product: how it functions…

I want this: http://i.imgur.com/xKRkY.png My longer reply got lost somewhere.

That's better but, a comments (46) link would be great on the second line.
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