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taiyabon Hacker News Redesign

Been reading the feedback here and on my blog over the last few hours, and I have to say I agree with most of it. This was intended to be an initial concept that was going to be iterated on again and again, so I guess I have plenty to do to make this better!

taiyabon Hacker News Redesign

I think you're missing the point here SeoxyS. I just put an initial concept out there for everyone to see and maybe get a flavour of how a redesign/reskinning of HN may look. I understand there's a lot to be desired and I haven't sat down yet and put the time into fleshing everything out properly, hence this will probably be iterated on a thousand times.

I appreciate the feedback, and will definitely take it into consideration.

taiyabon Hacker News Redesign

This is much better. Get rid of the superfluous numbering and put in the comments there.

taiyabon New Portfolio -- Thoughts?

Peter, good points -- I'll add the email address with the contact form instead of getting rid of it totally. Going to be adding a case study page that each piece of work links to, that has larger screenshots, more detail and depth on what work was done by myself etc.

Thanks for your input! :D

taiyabon New Portfolio -- Thoughts?

Cabose, taken on board your feedback. I definitely need to accompany the work with a case study page detailing what work was done for each project. In terms of keeping everything on one page, the initial goal was to keep it a one-pager (or at least try to), but I guess I'll need to iterate on that.

taiyabon New Portfolio -- Thoughts?

Good points Daniel. Definitely valid - I actually re-considered the "Spam my inbox" tag a lot, and didn't come up with anything better so stuck with it for the time being. I'll definitely be re-thinking that.

Overall, seems to be a big hate towards contact forms -- I don't quite understand why as maybe I want a bit more information to qualify the contact (like info on where they found out about me, or budget)? Just giving an email address doesn't allow for this.

taiyabon New Portfolio -- Thoughts?

Looking for feedback/reviews on my new portfolio design from the HN community!

taiyabon Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account

Better than relying on the Fed to make the right decisions - "quantitative easing", huh?

taiyabon Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

The use of common stock photography just makes it even better lol

taiyabon Entrepreneurs: Ideas are Worthless, Execution is Gold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)

I see it everyday still to this day.

taiyabon Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting

The funny thing is, this isn't just a problem in the developer community, it's across all creative fields (OK, it's not funny, you know what I mean :P).

I've always found that just starting with something very small to get into it always helps tons. I know it's a simple point, but it really does work wonders. Once you start, you'll just naturally progress and want to continue for a while longer.

taiyabon Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google

Very good point. Scrapers really need to be dealt with and you should be able to define what you class as spam on a personal level in Google. It's astounding they haven't done it yet.

taiyabon I've made Dayta free

What drove you to the decision Sahil?

BTW, we need to catch-up sometime!