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Thank you very much for this. Really!

Thanks for advice!

Same here =)

But we also have problems, of course: big crowds, random rogues, some of trains are dirty and smelly etc

As a Russian I'm glad to hear this :)

What's funny is that we usually do not notice its beauty because we got used to it.

And I don't travel a lot so I cannot compare.

BUT

In the past years we indeed got wi-fi, air conditioning and stuff. Some of trains are colored in thematic things, like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%...

Check it out, they look really great!

I remember when I was at school in ~2000, I bought a paper book about PHP4.

I remember that as a warm feeling...

I'm not sure, have been on Mac for ages. But this indeed sometimes drives me crazy

Honestly?

1. I wanted to make a PDF because later on I want to make a big fundamental book that I will sell :) It's kind of practice for me.

2. HTML is harder to make. I mean, decent HTML. The book was made in Sketch, so it's way easier.

3. I use the book for getting emails for newsletter. But for HN I decided to put the direct link, so that the community doesn't have to sign up

The best UI = No UI :)

Ha, thank you :)

Thank you :) Got your point

Never knew! This sounds weird for me, because teachers taught us that they/them used only for plural.

Superb, thank you!

!! Thank you for this detail.

The problem is that I'm not native speaker. Could you tell me, if it's correct to say, e.g.

"If the user wants to do this, they will do this"

I mean, if I need to use a single, not plural, how to properly refer to ... him/her?

I put him all the time because "a user" in Russian language has a gender, while in English it doesn't have a gender.

I'm always confused about this.

For example, "Imagine you have a user who wants to sign up. After (___) sings up"?

Please, give me advice here, this is really a problem =(

I constantly make mistakes too =( We're humans after all

This is because my friend told me to remove all that text I had before :D

Reminded me this https://twitter.com/vponamariov/status/1394692100239855617

Thank you for your feedback! Any feedback is good and I'll take everything into account for my future books :)!

Thanks!

Sooner or later I'll do that. Thank you!

thank you for the kind words!

This is the question I don't know myself how to answer.

I wouldn't put john@company.com, at least in complex forms. On the one hand you provide sample data, but on the other hand... for example you'll need to provide a fake phone number, some fake data that is not personal.

I tend to leave inputs empty (while having labels above them!) and only if they have some kind of masks I show the placeholder.

Any hints about how to fill the form I place BELOW the input, so that when user starts typing, they don't disappear.

So looks like I just keep them empty most of the time.

Or, if it's a super simple form (e.g. only email on landing page), I put "Enter your email here". Since it's kind of call to action, like "do this!".

If you're on twitter, https://twitter.com/vponamariov, you can share the result with me =)

Well... I don't know :D

It was easier for me to put it in Sketch and export as PDF, rather then making HTML

Thanks!

Agreed. I think I made the title so that it's a clickbait... while on the cover is says 50 tips.

Yeah, just a collection of tips. I'll write a real book later, this is the first try of writing at least something :)

Yeah, it's a business decision, no doubt. The only thing is that when a solo founders make their products, they tend to ask users information just "why not"?

I mean, the thinking process is like:

- Okay, we need a sign up form - Let's make users table - Okay, first name, last name, password, email - Okay, now let's make the form: first name, last name, password, password confrimation, email

While some apps just ask your email even without password :)

Of course if business needs those fields, then yeah. Just when developers work as businessmen, they tend to ask too much.

I'll tell you honestly that when I done some review of people sites on Twitter, I really saw quite a lot of common sense mistakes.

1. Grouping is the first one. 2. Text is the second (contrast / small size / line-height / headlines etc) 3. Poor forms (validation, no masks, no help for user)

So yeah, there is nothing that complex about UI, it's not nuclear physics. Less clicks, less actions, understandable, VISIBLE interfaces

The idea is that sometimes people overuse them. Like, putting borders EVERYWHERE.

Even HN does't have border for the background.

So of course sometimes they are okay. Bad thing is that when you have too many lines. E.g. if you have a bordered table, bordered table filters, bordered buttons, bordered icon buttons etc..

Ha! :D

Nice one. Indeed :) Gosh..

Woah!

Such a feedback! Thank you!!

I'll take all that into account. Btw, regarding grammar, obviously grammarly didn't help me but I tried as much as I can.