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Created September 8, 2018 01:07 — forked from vikramrojo/UsableInterface.md
An intuitive evaluation criteria

Usable Interface

Derived from various usability literature, these 8 usability inspection criteria are meant to be used in critiques and evaluations of web applications.

💰 Affordance

Adaptation of an application features to a user’s changing needs

Requirements Provision

  • The set of features offered by the system satisfies the needs and requirements of users

Basics

Comments on tone and style:

  • Never apologize in a design brief
  • keep it succinct
  • Do not talk about design features that do not have a direct correlation with a problem

PRE DEFINE

Definition: A design report documents the solution to a unique problem.

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

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Created April 25, 2016 21:23 — forked from harperreed/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-01-notes-essay.md
Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble

Pass in tooltip text with pseudo classes and the content: ''; property. The text changes with the parent's, in this case the button's, hover and active and focus states.

***Caveat: A user has to click out of button focus state for text to change back.

A Pen by Julie Horvath on CodePen.

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plainspace / Intro-to-finger-painting.markdown
Created December 25, 2013 07:25
A Pen by Jared Volpe.
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plainspace / hppy-sd.markdown
Created December 25, 2013 06:30
A Pen by Jared Volpe.
<!doctype html>
<!-- http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/01/27/ios-8-web-apps/ -->
<html>
<head>
<title>iOS 8 web app</title>
<!-- CONFIGURATION -->