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Andrei Michael Herasimchuk
Personal blog · designbyfire.comdesignwriting
Andrei Michael Herasimchuk writes Design by Fire, a personal blog at designbyfire.com about design and writing. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its design critiques of Jakob Nielsen's site, including a 'Design Eye for the Usability Guy' post and a post on a redesign of Nielsen's site.
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.
What Hacker News says?
9 years ago some designers/developers even tried a nice update on it: http://www.designbyfire.com/?p=4
Comment linking /?p=4
on “Jakob Nielsen's site has been redesigned”Submitted Please Make Me Think: Are High-Tech Usability Priorities Backwards? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHe's merely critiquing the aesthetics. The whole 'unreadable' jazz is histrionics. Now for a pukka critique of Jakob's site take a look at DESIGN EYE for the Usability Guy http://www.designbyfire.com/000094.html
Comment linking /000094.html
on “UI Guru Jakob Nielson's Site Is Unreadable”