Things I Learned Designing at Disqus
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Things I Learned Designing at Disqus
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#2"Engineers should teach engineers GIT, designers should teach designers GIT."
is git part of modern design workflow ? how are designers using git ?
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#3If you are writing for a design audience, you are going to get a lot of frowns for the 700KB paper background image you have on your blog (and the paper barely even shows).
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#4The thing that stood out for me is that over a billion unique people use the service. Does it really underpin that much of the modern Internet?
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#5The thing that stood out for me is that over a billion unique people use the service. Does it really underpin that much of the modern Internet?
How many of those are voluntary, active users, though?
I see them more as "victims" of it, who are subjected to it without giving much consent at all. Somebody loads a blog article or some other web page that uses Disqus for accepting and showing comments, and without necessarily wanting to use it the page's visitors have become "users" of Disqus.
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#6The thing that stood out for me is that over a billion unique people use the service. Does it really underpin that much of the modern Internet?
How many of those are voluntary, active users, though? I see them more as "victims" of it, who are subjected to it without giving much consent at all. Somebody loads a blog article or some other web page that uses Disqus for accepting and showing comments, and without necessarily wanting to use it the page's visitors have become "users" of Disqus.
It's similar (though a bit stretched) to count site visitors as google analytics users. Or, less stretched, users who click on ads as a Google Adsense/words users. It doesn't subtract from their success though.
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#7"Engineers should teach engineers GIT, designers should teach designers GIT." is git part of modern design workflow ? how are designers using git ?
All sorts of assets have been stored in version control systems for decades now. That includes designs, images, documents, specifications, and so forth.
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#8"Engineers should teach engineers GIT, designers should teach designers GIT." is git part of modern design workflow ? how are designers using git ?
Clone the repository and start a webapp locally to tweak CSS and do other designery things.
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#9Would you say #6 and #7 are true generally, or Joshua's opinion?
To avoid inefficiency I find having people 'jigsaw-puzzle-piece' shaped helps - it means they're not always waiting on Bob on the desk over there to do the task that's blocking them (even if that task is only "Export an item from a PSD").
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#10If you are writing for a design audience, you are going to get a lot of frowns for the 700KB paper background image you have on your blog (and the paper barely even shows).
much worse (dark pattern?): on my mobile it puts a Twitter share link exactly where my thumb is touching the screen for scrolling.