tipjoy
Joined 19 years ago
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Abby Kirigin
Lead Interaction Designer, Bump
Co-founder, tipjoy.com
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Comment · 15 years ago
This is a better article about skeuomorphism for those interested: http://www.andymangold.com/skeuomorphism-the-opiate-of-the-p...
PS - Skeuomorphism definition: "Strictly speaking it means retaining design features from earlier designs when those features previously had a specific reason for being that way, but do not any longer." - http://madebymany.com/blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy
Comment · 16 years ago
Bump is building an awesome design team. We are hiring interaction designers & visual designers - come join us.
Comment · 17 years ago
Debatably, they got less than half the talent, thank you very much!
Comment · 17 years ago
Also worth noting was once we made it through the 'first round' I sent an email asking some questions and got no reply...
Comment · 17 years ago
Dear author: Please stop misusing 'less'. It should be _fewer_ disks, _fewer_ books. Fewer is for discrete things, less is for continuous. As in: fewer dollars, less money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer/less
Comment · 17 years ago
mediocrity != good
Comment · 17 years ago
Hm, I did a quick search, and it's missing all of the payment engines, and doesn't list popular Twitter URL shorteners like bit.ly
Comment · 17 years ago
This execution isn't addressing the readers needs, but it would be interesting to see several different attempts at a redesign. It would be a fun challenge for interaction designers.
Comment · 17 years ago
We do that as well.
Comment · 17 years ago
They use free p2p payments as a loss leader to up-sell their credit cards. It's a pretty interesting model.
Comment · 17 years ago
Um, early April Fools joke? Oh and did you go to the homepage: http://www.gicleelife.com ? I'm laughing, anyway.
Comment · 17 years ago
Seafarers just makes the game bigger. Cities & Knights makes it more complex (as well as making it bigger).