Jay Sylvester

Product designer and web dev

[Jay Sylvester @JayIsAngry]

Approaches to UI design:

"If you know it, show it." - Engineering

"Ruthlessly edit." - Visual design

"Ruthlessly iterate." - #UX #design

[Jay Sylvester @JayIsAngry]

I finally felt good enough about citizen, my Node.js web app framework, to give it 1.0 status. Got a bit of traction on Hacker News and went from 0 to 120 stars on Github. Pretty cool.

https://t.co/kkfdxLJAjP

#nodejs #javascript #webdev

[Jay Sylvester @JayIsAngry]

The answer is yes. You are still a designer even if you don't chase every new tool.

[dudu @dudufolio]

If you're a designer, and you don't use these color tools

are you even a designer?

1. Radix UI custom palette

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React has made the web worse in just about every measurable way, while doing absolutely nothing to make it better for end users.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Quote tweet this with your spiciest web dev take

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@ToddsNerdCave Yo homes! Still killing it in the retro scene I see.

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@dmalich2 @slinganswers It’s been like this for a while. I’ve been using my Nvidia Shield as a backup.

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@Sling Navigating the guide on the Apple TV app doesn’t work when the touchpad is disabled under system settings. The directional buttons get stuck at the top of the screen. Tried both my Apple Remote and my TV’s remote using HDMI-CEC.

I can navigate the rest of the app.

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@slinganswers I already did all the usual sign out/uninstall/reinstall/restart stuff, thanks.

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@jsngr @dhh Most can’t do this well.

You can spot a product designed by engineers, and you can spot a product engineered by designers.

Wrapping theses skills into one role reveals deficiencies on one side or the other. Most aren’t skilled enough to slip between these roles successfully.

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@SketchHelp Thanks, this would definitely be a nice option to reduce clutter.

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@SketchHelp How do I hide prototype interactions in Design mode? Can't locate that option anywhere.

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@RCArthur @belmont1792 @SmokeMonsterTWI I am not.

Best bet is to PM DrDre on the forum.

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@belmont1792 @SmokeMonsterTWI 👍

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If your web site "works best in Chrome", your web site is dog shit.

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@rossable Needlessly complex machinery (frameworks, build processes, deployments, etc.) built to achieve a simple end result (delivering web content).

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Front end dev has become a Rube Goldberg machine.

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@sketch Can you make it pop?

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I miss URLs with /cgi-bin/ in them.

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@DessertCup Women can get away with this. Men cannot.