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Adam Greenfield

Personal blog · speedbird.wordpress.comdesignculture

Adam Greenfield's personal blog at speedbird.wordpress.com covers design and culture. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “What Apple Needs to Do Now ”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
11HN people?
2008–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post on skeuomorphs in Apple's UI, the design practice of imitating physical objects in software. The post was submitted to HN as a Skeuomorph thread.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Clean living under difficult circumstances

Most-linked posts?

  1. What Apple Needs to Do Now
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-06-25
  2. Quantified Self
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. andrewf · 2011-06-29
    It's called skeumorphism. You're not the only one. http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/what-apple-needs-t...

    Comment linking /2010/06/25/what-apple-needs-to-do-now/

    on “Designing GitHub for Mac”
  2. kgutteridge · 2011-02-20

    Submitted Nokia culture will out as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  3. mikecane · 2010-06-25Recommends
    It turns out this blog post is about skeuomorphs in the Apple UI: http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/what-apple-needs-t... Right now, number 40 under New. Should be voted up, I think.

    Comment linking /2010/06/25/what-apple-needs-to-do-now/

    on “Skeuomorph”
  4. ihodes · 2010-06-25

    Submitted What Apple Needs to Do Now as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. dirtyaura · 2011-06-29

    Submitted Aesthetic criticism of Apple's skeumorphic design as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. tonydewan · 2013-01-18

    Submitted Quantified Self as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. bensummers · 2010-04-16

    Submitted Real life: Weiser FTW - Xerox PARC's vision realised as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. blasdel · 2009-09-22

    Submitted “Responsibilization” and user experience as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. pidge · 2013-02-05

    Submitted The quantified self as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. seancron · 2010-07-19

    Submitted Every user a developer, part II as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. blasdel · 2009-09-07

    Submitted Installed infrastructure, latent knowledge and the small-batch aesthetic as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. danw · 2008-08-21

    Submitted Worth a thousand words, etc as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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