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Yes. It updates per keystroke rather than per save. We've found that makes it perfect for sketching in code and tweaking a design.

Surely paper money has 'production' as well by that logic. Printing, distributing it and preventing counterfeiting all count as 'production' for paper money.

I think you're essentially comparing fiat currencies guaranteed by governments with the fixed supply of Bitcoin that isn't guaranteed to be stable.

That doesn't mean it's not a currency, just an unstable one with fixed supply.

IANAL

You're right you'd own full rights to your work. That doesn't make a difference though - you'd realistically never sue them.

Anything more than an hour or two should be paid for. That's been my experience interviewing across London and SF.

Completely agree with the author, being asked to create potentially production-izable work is ethically wrong.

On the flip side, you learn a ton about how the engineering culture by looking at their codebase.

Hmm, seems like something product manufacturers should pay for not consumers - see http://www.knomobags.com/uk/register-your-knomo/

Foundation 5 looks incredible, might be worth checking out too.

You waive that when you work for an investment bank.

Check out UberX. 20-30% cheaper than most mini-cabs.

You're right that we should all strive to build UI that responds instantly. Unfortunately sometimes, for reasons out of a designers control there might be a legitimate reason for a site to reach that level - for that, adding a subtle progress bar does help.

Think of it as a local optimisation before you reach a global one of instant UI.

This is awesome - any plans to charge for it?

It's hard enough figuring out a product in the early days, even harder if you've got to support multiple platforms.

Bookmarked. This is awesome. Love that no account is required.

It's not always possible to push changes back to LESS or SASS due to ambiguity at which level changes should be applied - if you're editing CSS values. The browser would have to display SASS or LESS in the inspector for what you're suggesting to work.

Love the concept. Would like to see something real though. I feel like you'll need a ton of social proof to get this going, buyers would be taking a risk otherwise (on quality, fit etc).

15" retina sports a default res of 1440x900

Done

It varies too much, that's why the service doesn't link to the psds directly when available. Usually the creator will specify some loose terms.

Inspired by a basketball free throw, considering dribbble already has that theme going for it.

Creator here. If you have a spare dribbble invite and think this is worthy, I'd love one!

It's easier to just scroll rather than pan and zoom.

1 tap (or 2) purchasing and lots of accounts with credit cards attached

This. Sass mixins give you the modular benefits of micro-classes but without polluting your HTML.

Love this!

For the record. Apple has pushed Google Maps off the iPhone in iOS 6. Not sure they'll allow it either as it would 'duplicate core OS functionality'

Support the UK please? It's really easy if you're using Twillio

I think this raises an interesting question about the nature of natural monopolies in technology, and the lack of competition caused by that effect.

Craigslist is powerful cause of it's network effects, and it's getting away with what is most probably an inferior service.

I'm a developer too, for the last year I've been working on my UI & UX skills - and I've somehow managed to get paid to built out product features for the web (UI, UX + code) professionally.

Here's what I figured out (YMMV):

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For UI design

Books aren't that helpful, you have learn by doing.

Instead, for theory Treehouse offers a primer on HTML, CSS & UI design which provided a great foundation, they have courses on things like colour theory. Really really helpful.

Practice. I designed & launched a bunch of complete web apps, each one with a landing page + full functionality. Each attempt had a visible improvement in UI & UX over the last. I got tons of great feedback and encouragement (you're gonna need it) from forrst. So I'd highly encourage posting there and asking for feedback (tell people you're learning).

Learn Photoshop.

Check out Sacha Greif's ebook on UI design http://sachagreif.com/ebook/ it comes with a PSD and has a great intro into UI stuff.

Check out Lighting & Realism In Interface Design by Mike Rundle (developer + designer) here http://designthencode.com

Get a bunch of freebies from dribbble and deconstruct and remix them to your taste.

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For UX

Watch this https://peepcode.com/products/ryan-singer-ux then watch it again. Ryan Singer is an absolute UX god - he understands how to navigate the problem space very very well.

To really improve UX measure how people use what you make (mixpanel, click tracking) & conduct user studies - watch people use an interface to really understand what works UX wise.

Existing users still have access, not sure why you'd need a warning in that case.

There's usually a few hours delay before new apps show up in the search index.

Sounds like you are mobile first (because you're targeting tablets). Which makes this discussion about native (obj-c, java) vs web for prototyping consumer tech services.

Most consumer tech services are seeing usage move to native apps which emphasis great experience - surely working on that counts towards reaching product-market fit.