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whitingxon 1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune

Along similar lines - it's worth seeking out Kurt Stenzel's – Jodorowsky's Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

https://www.discogs.com/master/921405-Kurt-Stenzel-Jodorowsk...

An imagined view on what this OST would have sounded like to accompany to documentary (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/).

whitingxon The NASA Task Load Index (TLX)

A subjective workload assessment tool which allows users to perform subjective workload assessments on operator(s) working with various human-machine interface systems.

whitingxon Ask HN: Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?

Recommendations in this area;

Books

'The Making of Karateka' by Jordan Mechner http://amzn.eu/5iUrxxo

'The Making of Prince of Persia' by Jordan Mechner http://amzn.eu/fJ0Nfr2

Documentaries

'From Bedrooms to Billions' http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/about-the-film https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404567/

'From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years!' http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/amiga https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4603210/

Blog Posts

https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/

Hope ^ these prove interesting, will update comment if I think of others ツ

whitingxon Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard

>another mesh standard

Standards!

https://m.xkcd.com/927/ ;)

whitingxon Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?

Ha ツ - thought the same thing when someone shared this site at work

https://twitter.com/whitingx/status/978983203024318464

whitingxon Amazon Studios to Adapt Consider Phlebas, First Novel of the Culture Series

So we can hopefully look forward to seeing the Superlifter 'Prime Mover' in 'The Player of Games' follow up series ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult...

whitingxon Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

http://pixabay.com/

https://stocksnap.io/

http://www.free-images.cc/

https://unsplash.com/

https://www.pexels.com/

http://librestock.com/

http://skuawk.com/

http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up

http://finda.photo/

http://foodshot.co/

http://growthtext.com/free-stock-photos/

https://www.stockified.com/

https://www.negativespace.co/

https://everypixel.com/

http://startupstockphotos.com/

https://foodiesfeed.com/

https://picjumbo.com/

https://www.stockio.com/

hope this helps ツ

whitingxon Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?

https://gengo.com/

https://localizejs.com/

^ both useful translation services ツ

whitingxon Ask HN: Are there drawing tool plugins to be used within forums?

https://ux.stackexchange.com/ < has a built in version of the Balsamiq (https://balsamiq.com/) UI drawing tool.

There is a write up on the integration here - https://blog.balsamiq.com/uxstackexchange/

whitingxon Ask HN: What is the best thing you ever owned?

Commodore Amiga 500 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500

Things I do today to earn a living and enjoy myself (Design, Music, Games) I got into via the Amiga ツ

(A great retrospective of the Amiga here - https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/)

whitingxon Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco

> have there ever been any advances in this field to make the process go faster

Speed Archaeology! https://youtu.be/m11VH-dUPEk ;)

whitingxon Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data

DMS = Document Management System ツ

whitingxon Marvel Styleguide

Nice ツ

(though when I saw the link title was hoping it would be a companion piece to this DC style guide - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.207954002578217.59... - ツ )

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No problem :)

Aside from the two point mentioned—looks a useful resource, thanks for sharing :)

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... also :)

"A single font is used throughout the app"

not sure how useful this ⤴ advice is—for example, an app could use different fonts from the 'San Francisco' typeface - http://codemotionapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/San-Fra... - for a consistent design with no real detriment to 'UX'

whitingxon [dead]

Looks a potentially useful resource :)

On thing—re: 'Differences in navigation are considered.' - Android now has a 'Tab bar' style UI element - https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/bottom-navigat... - so this point might need updating.

whitingxon Famous websites UX evolution across the years

Nope - “Famous websites UI evolution across the years” - site explains nothing about the UX thinking behind these changes.

whitingxon Delia Derbyshire – Sculptress of Sound [video]

Also available (probably UK only) on the BBC page here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rl2ky - which offers an .mp3 download :)

whitingxon Sign in Sign in Sign In

Doesn't seem great for accessibility the fact that all the 'Sign In' links also have the same link title;

“title="Link opens in a new window"”

http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2012/01/html5-accessibilit...

whitingxon 4Q: the final archive format

  "the final archive format"

https://xkcd.com/927/

;)

whitingxon Show HN: Call to Speakers – Find, track and apply to speak at tech conferences

A very useful site - I've been following and promoting it for a while now :)

Could the 'Topics' filter be set to filter by UX events?

whitingxon Custom UX checklist for your project

Hi Nina - looks a useful tool but you have a typo;

"We prepered a UX report for you." should read "We prepared a UX report for you."

Especially based on your UX guideline of "First impression. The homepage creates a positive first impression and supports conversion." :)