Ironically fighting my desire to buy it now, too. Just got done listening to it and found it to be really disappointing, even outside the hype.
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Are you using Layer Masks in Photoshop to accomplish this? If not, select the layer of the laptop in your Layers panel and click on the third icon from the left (a circle inside of a square) at the bottom of the panel. It will create a white box next to your layer preview thumbnail. It should automatically select the white box, but if not, go ahead and click on it. Then make a selection around the screen on the laptop and press delete. Place the screenshot of your site behind the laptop layer and adjust to fit within the dimensions of that selection.
For some reason in my version of Photoshop, it will show a bit of the original background behind the mask. To hide this/make it fully transparent, right click on the mask in your Layer panel and choose "Refine Mask". Then under "Adjust Edge", move the "Shift Edge" slider from "0%" all the way to the left to "-100%". Your View Mode should also be set to "On Layers" (which is hopefully the default, but just in case).
If the problem you're having is that on resize, the screenshot looks "fuzzy" or not as crisp, follow these directions - http://www.missiondata.com/blog/design/372/sharpening-screen... and tweak as necessary.
TL;DR, open/paste the screenshot as two new images, go to Image > Image Size and set the Resample Image (at the bottom) to Bicubic for one and Bicubic Sharper for the other. Put the Bicubic Sharper image layer over the fuzzier Bicubic one and fade the opacity out as necessary. You may need to apply the Sharpen filter to make it a little more crisp too.
Hope that helps!
Unfortunately it is freezing up on me using an image with a gradient at about 90% of the initialization.
They really need to figure that business out. Even a simple, "How do you know this person?" would suffice, allowing people to determine the weight of that endorsement on the relationship we have.
jmalter is the founder of FounderDating.
jfarmer is the founder of Everlane.
Both have terrible UX, but only one of them is being a total ass in this thread (vs. pretending to be oblivious to dark patterns). Mind who you're insulting about their behavior.
http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthue/
http://www.eigenlogik.com/spectrum/ (OS X 10.7+ app)
He later apologized, but I bring this up only because the quality curation aspect previously spoken to is non-existent, even though that was supposed to be a selling point and something that set them apart from their competitors. I was excited about this because I feel that every other site in this market is oversaturated and makes it more difficult to connect designers to gigs. To the same point, both iterations of the website have been awful both in design and usability, losing my trust in the founders' abilities to curate to begin with.
Now that it seems anyone of any talent or skillset are allowed in, I don't see how it's any different than Dribbble, Behance, Coroflot, Zerply, 99designs, or even personal portfolios. I fail to see value in this site over any of the aforementioned, especially because you're taking part of my potential income (and planning on airing my personal rates) in the process. What is the benefit here?
.. means the UX is bad. Just because it's an advanced tool doesn't mean it needs to be unreasonably difficult to wrap your head around. Pixelmator isn't as powerful, but the UX for most of what it does far exceeds Photoshop's similar features.
This layout might look more modern than the 1998 frames we were expecting, but from a usability standpoint, it's still weak. If your average government site has a lefthand sidebar that contains all of the navigation, that in itself is better than making your user move their eyes all over the page, forcing them to click on a button to even see the rest of the options available. On top of that, they don't look like links (they don't even have a hover state), which is frustrating enough for me, but could be entirely too confusing for average users.
Additionally, that large image is useless; the "View more services" should be visible without needing to click into it.
And I'm the troll. Figure your life out, dude.
Not sure how feasible this would be, but what I'd be overjoyed to see is a way to push the resource over to something like Codepen.io (or something on Unheap's end) so you could tinker with it and have all of these spin-offs of people actually customizing the resource that Unheap could also link to. It'd act as additional inspiration, give people more of a reason to use the site, get more designers into code without the setup hassle, and help the plugin author better sell his/her skills as a developer vs. as a designer and likewise, better sell the designer as someone capable of working with code.
My problem with this blog entry -- besides the fact that posts like these garner all sorts of self-pats-on-the-back from men who already outnumber women exponentially, thus making those dealing with these issues feel even smaller than they already do -- is that no one is asking for special treatment. They are just asking for the situations in your post to be out of the picture. I don't know where these phantom extremist tech feminists are that are going around telling people that we need to separate to coexist that people keep complaining about. What I know is that many women seek solace in private mailing lists and women-only coding clubs is because they've experienced enough frustration that they need an outlet to scream and a place to make sure that they're not being irrational or interpreting a situation wrong.
The author may be comfortable in her own skin, and she may be able to shake off any ill-will towards her, but not wanting to be treated like an idiot at your job is hardly gender-specific. Men are just as likely to be in that position, but their validation-over-time happens more quickly. They are able to bounce back. They are seen as confident and worthy when they ask for their raises and promotions, as opposed to how women are seen in the same situation.
At the end of the day, I think posts like these are just as destructive as ones like Shanley's (https://medium.com/women-and-work/405b2d12d213). Both speak to two sides of the same coin, but unfortunately they take the attitude that their experiences are the only experiences, and thus, here is a guilt-tripping one-size-fits-all solution.
A great post on the issue of trying to deal with not talking about gender inequality while dealing with gender inequality is by comedian Sara Schaefer, titled "Taco at the sausage party": https://medium.com/gender-justice-feminism/66fa6d700af2
Even if you attempt to ignore everything going on around you, it doesn't change what people are saying and doing about you. At some point, you crack, no matter how much you have been trying to avoid doing so. The attitude shift needs to happen across the board.