webpraktikos

spot on

Without other people in the room, or at least on a video call, they have no audience to perform for, so they'd barely move.

The ego rages for energy — to run on stress hormones.

Hey there, I didn’t know that about HN.

I have a similar view about design honesty and products being overly focused on modern aesthetics compared to basics, elegance, simplicity, and care.

Here is how I would tweak HN: line length of fewer than 90 characters to make it more legible; line-height around 1.45% of the font size so you can read blocks of text more smoothly; optimized font sizes; use better-made typefaces so you can have better “between-the-lines” experience and overall character; make elements better click/touch targets; less busy interface, etc. I don’t want people to notice the design much. What I want is to make the product more useful and understandable; and users to feel relaxed and joyful :)

I’ll share this observation I found in physiology: the better the function, the better the structure, and aesthetics on top of it. However, there are many kinds of “aesthetics” in the human world.

The icons are there so that one can, at a glance, recognize a post type – video, link to an article, tweet, code project, or tool.

As I mentioned previously: in the past, there were many two-line post names (prompt examples were more common), so we increased the row height. As I can see it now, there are very few two-line posts, and I’ll review the row height amount next.

In the past, there were many two-line post names (prompt examples were more common), so we increased the row height. As I can see it now, there are very few two-line posts, and I’ll review the row height amount next.

Testing it on Firefox – Twitter embeds don’t show on my computer (we’ll investigate); everything else looks fine.

Emergent Mind’s UI designer here. Thanks, and I already asked it here: what do you guys think about something like this design as a Hacker News redesign?

Emergent Mind’s UI designer here. Thanks, and what do you guys think about something like this design as a Hacker News redesign?

EM’s UI designer here. Simple and basic are some of the most common words when I explain my designs. And Hacker News’ UI was an inspiration.

We’ll usually start with a task based on an hourly rate, not a fixed cost.

*Preceden’s (not PrecedenT’s) :D

The Precedent’s designer here. When I wrote my “for hire” ads, my bullet points were these:

· Typography-based design system with Figma · Robust CSS with Tailwind CSS · Straightforward JavaScript with Alpine.js or Stimulus

I also noted that my preferred back-end language and framework were Ruby and Rails (on which Preceden is built).

So being clear, specific, and knowing some solid technologies and design/code tactics helped me find someone like Matt, who has been a very good collaborator these past few years.

It was posted on Haker News (Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?), Reddit (r/forhire r/DesignJobs r/freelance_forhire), and Tailwind Discord.