Jim Silverman

I do web design at a big company.

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I left Twitter for a while because Scott Baio personally tried to ruin my life for making a joke about him on here.

But I'm back now. 👋

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Went on Product Hunt for the first time in a few years looking for some real life inspiration. All I found are niche stuff for start-up folks.

Where do people find real product design these days?

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@RebovichInst @JWKeady I don't understand. Why would anyone advocate for confusion over advantage when most of the democratic world already has has fair and straightforward ballots?

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@oykun Feels like a false dichotomy.

Form and function aren't at opposite ends of a scale. In product design, form should serve function to enhance functionality and accessibility.

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@ddayen Thank you for bringing the blatant corruption of NJ's ballot design into the light.

There can be a debate on who's the better candidate. But it should not be debatable that the ballot design should be a level playing field.

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@jsngr You joke, but this is a dramatically better UX in many ways

It follows standard and expected patterns, shows all settings in a scannable way, has an immediately available "off" option

The average user doesn't want to play with this. They just want to set the button and move on

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@novikoff Counterpoint: Aesthetics are subjective and should not affect usability.

Create great defaults and set guardrails for customization. Everyone wins.

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@disco_lu Great tip, but why does this work? Shouldn't the two-step linear gradient have 360,100,40 as its midpoint by default?

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@machinehuman "critical to humanity" in this case does not mean a positive impact.

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@TedGoas super curious to see how far someone stretched Breaking Bad to make it a product management clout post.

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@mar15sa @briannekimmel She's citing a study from October 2020, when many were still adjusting to pandemic-related remote work or didn't have options.

Seems like important context nearly two years later. 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/UXqkU18Kgp

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@ilyamiskov Someone needs to bring back Forrst. I don't remember what happened to it after it was acquired, but man, was it a great community for design feedback.

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@andybudd All industries are like this. It's not a design thing, it's a Twitter thing. Everyone's just trying to have a unique and controversial take to get followers.

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@hobdaydesign @blankenship The plight of a designer on a large, established product. Most of the work is iterative and business-driven. Can't capture it in a portfolio because I'm not looking to bore people to tears explaining the context behind each user story.

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@bencsin I'm perplexed by the hype as well. Sure, it's clever visual design to hide the camera cutout... but it's still just a notification pane. Always out of reach.

On Android, you can swipe down anywhere on your home screen to bring these things into tappable range. Much more usable.

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@TedGoas I enjoyed it! Particularly the bit about upward mobility as an IC. I constantly find myself (internally) debating the same thing.

Overall, it was just the right amount of depth for my morning coffee with a smattering of quality reads to cue up. Looking forward to the next!

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@GergelyOrosz Absolutely right. I can't imagine they've landed many (any?) Enterprise accounts. Pitch's main differentiators are aesthetic. That's simply irrelevant to larger orgs, who make do with a basic branded template.

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@brianne2k Another useful skill: knowing when your can affect change and when to abandon ship.

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@brian_lovin It might not be for everyone, but I do appreciate that they're taking some bold risks in both design and content.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some of this UI toned down as complaints pour in over the next few weeks.