waterflame's comments

'Also, you have a close sarcasm tag with no open sarcasm tag' -- sarcasm does not start by priming people of what to come. Especially those who would take you words seriously and start to relate to your comment.

I guess it's a win-win situation both ways: - it can make people more addicted to apps to the point where we all fall off cliffs or get run by an app addict while crossing the road using our phones. - or it can push people to the limit where they get so much addicted to their apps that they actually call for interventions, completely abandon their phone, or seek help; introducing youjustneedspace.com </sarcasm>

"Using your phone while driving is reckless, regardless of the authentication mechanism." -- true. Nevertheless, Numbers show that people do use their phones while driving.

"I would say similar to the amount now, and less than passcode-based unlock" -- For now this is just a claim. This is why I'm wondering... Yet, imagine needing to place your phone in front of your face, instead of just using your finger.

While I love the phone and find it a big improvement over all current market phones (not that innovative though), I wonder how many people will die trying to unlock their phones while driving.

And they will unlock it while driving.

Everyone is forgetting that Google can provide such tool because of Chrome (60% market share); they don't need to track you. They already are. Google it's tightening it's grip on the web. Yesterday the announced that they will apply the Better Ad Standard by 2018. They said they'll ban intrusive ads that block the user from the content, ads that play sound automatically, and flashy ads... Now "flashy" is so vague.

I've been using this tool since a year now to quickly build HTML5 banners for DoubleClick. 1- the software was way too buggy than it is now, yet, it still is, and updates aren't that frequent. 2- all objects are positioned absolute, even though you can choose to create a responsive banner. 3- for me, it's perfect for ads, and handles animations pretty well (it uses CSS animations) 4- you can always access the generated code and modify it once you understand how it works. 5- I would never use it to create anything other than ads. 6- the UI sucks, especially when the biggest part of the process is adding assets, modifying their properties or settings their CSS, and you constantly have to resize the accordion drawers.

Apparently the Dutch are not as smart as the Americans. It's simple: 1- Legalize Guns so people can shoot each other over anything 2- Privatize Prisons so that greedy CEOs can take over the "business" 3- Create laws that can criminalize you for any stupid thing you do, procedures that make everyone frustrated, and an economy that keeps you bankrupt most of the time

It's actually simple. GitHub tests on their free users and see their reaction. If the feedback is positive, move it to paid clients. If not, keep frustrating your free clients so they move to paid accounts.

1- accessing someone's computer is like accessing someone's home - checked 2- unauthorized access of a computer system is a crime - checked 3- the kid should be taught a lesson - checked

But... do u have to destroy his future for it? A 14 years old kid should drag a fellony with him till he graduates from university, because he decided to prank his teacher? That if he's allowed access to a university with such a record.

I thought law and punishment's roles are to reform and teach. (slapping myself... wake up!)

It's like accusing Google of facilitating Terrorist attacks through Maps. The NSA was unconstitutionally spying on everyone. If Snowden accused NSA without releasing any Data, no one would've believed him.

no.

Download a VPN app like TunnelBear (www.tunnelbear.com), and choose the country you want to appear in

I'm sorry I didn't read all the comments, but couldn't it be that the artist was inspired by Alice in Wonderland (1951) movie? The silhouette resembles to that of Alice: http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110816104841/disney/...

...just saying.

It's great on Chrome and better on IE (that's why and how it was built for :)) Very addictive!

You can read something written the way you want; No I don't like people with titles because eventually they're over-paid to do nothing. User Experience, the way its spreading now and the way UX people are trying to force things, is a way to make things look alike. A strategy created by big corporations to make their work easier. Where are the customization features every website had a couple of years ago, where people can create their own UX? Ah, someone thought he can tell us how to "experience" better. Sorry, I'm too sarcastic but that's how I see UX. Can you convince a Chinese not to eat with chopsticks because you think that people that eat with forks and spoons are having a better experience? Think again!

UX ripped off skills from different majors and combined them together to form a new job: usability from designers, planning and organizing and wireframing from project managers, testing from QA and test groups, and prototyping from developers.

this leaves managers with traffic between sales/clients, designers, UX bullshitters and developers. It leaves designers with making the wireframes look better. It leaves developers with production work.

UX developer: "we should do this and this and this." Developer: "yes master"

To me UX is a set of skills that designers and developers should learn and earn. That what makes a Designer and a Developer: SENIOR. What is seniority then? Speed? CEO: "Yes this is our senior designer. He can design a website in 5 minutes. He's senior because he knows all Photoshop shortcuts and is fast with the tools. By the way, his designs look nice and he follows everything the UX Designer tells him to."

So basically what I understood at the end, is that your UX developer role... is fun!? and exiting?!

Let me tell you what a UX developer is. UX developers are people that couldn't find themselves neither as designers or as developers and got stuck in between. Those became so many over the years; people interested not in being perfect at doing one thing, but at being intermediate in everything. Others are project managers who gained some experience in handling projects, but got bored of all the wire-framing, analysis and actually doing nothing (at least the majority), so they decided to get more involved in projects on a technical/creative level.

The first group, the stuck-in-between, become UX designers/developers with a few technical tricks. The second group, the managers, became UX analysts and experts.

So, in reality, your job as UX designer/developer, is to make real Designers dumb, by not letting them learn how to create usable designs, but designs that follow your lead and your wire-frames which eventually affect real Designers creativity. Or maybe real Designers are too dumb to learn how to offer the user a good experience! The UX developers, on the other hand, don't have an actual role. So if you're doing the wire-framing, the analysis, the content management, the information architecture, can you please specify what is a project manager doing? Plus, if your skills enables you to prototype certain features, what if you're involved in a super complex project, who's gonna prototype now? I know, the one who actually does the prototyping and is actually a real Programmer that knows his language very well and knows its actual limitations. Not the ones UX developers heard about.

The real definition for your job is ripped of from something every human should learn how to do and that's communication.