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Comment by mattlutze | Hacker News Reader

> with actual evidence that you can flick through

"flick" makes me think you're seeing this in a mobile context.

I'd be curious to hear more on the market research you did that suggested pursuing a causal, mobile model for consumption of job applicants' materials.

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We haven't decided to specifically focus on mobile, although one neat use case we had in mind was that an Accredible narrative might be a great thing to take into an in-person interview with you on a mobile or tablet and then using that to illustrate the points that you'd like to make once they ask you to elaborate on your skills, projects, experience and interest. Our primary intended use case however is more on desktop-focused job applications.

The UX refinement sessions for that tablet use case would be crazy fun. The experience would have to be silk if I were going to hinge my new-hire interview on putting it in front of an employer, with no experience on the app, and let them self-direct the exploration. I'd look forward to see how that turned out.

And my latent tech writer OCD-ness compels me to suggest dropping "flick" from your vocabulary in favor of

  [...] with actual evidence that you can interact with.

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