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Andy Rutledge
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Andy Rutledge's personal blog at andyrutledge.com covers design and web. Since 2007, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-07-18
- Gestalt Principles of Perception: Figure Ground Relationships5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-02-05
- Web Design is Product Design3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-08-31
- Andy Rutledge Responds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-01
- Op-Ed response to the talk given at TED by Patty Maes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-03-12
- /images09/newsSite/nyt-redux-article.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Some relevant writing on unsolicited redesigns from last year, worth bearing in mind in this context, by - Lukas Mathis: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/05/15/unsolicited_redesig... - Khoi Vinh: http://www.subtraction.com/2011/07/28/unsolicited-redesigns - Andy Rutledge: http://andyrutledge.com/journalism.php
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on “The Next Microsoft”Submitted Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com as a story · 350 points
HN discussionGestalt principles of Design: http://www.andyrutledge.com/gestalt-principles-1-figure-grou... bit more theoretical, but simple and introductory, and interesting to read. IIRC (it's been a while) the five articles in this series would take roughly the same amount of time as these two big ones in the OP.
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on “Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2”Submitted Web Design is Product Design as a story · 49 points
HN discussionA bit heavier on the theory (still a great introduction), describing what to me pretty much seem axioms of human perception in the area of user interfaces, you're going to need the Gestalt Principles: http://www.andyrutledge.com/gestalt-principles-1-figure-grou... It's a series of five, that should provide great insights on principles like spatial relationships, grouping, contrast, size, texture, and more. Read them…
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on “Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2”Submitted The Employable Web Designer as a story · 21 points
HN discussionInteresting proposals, but like Andy Rutledge's NYT re-design ( http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php ) limited by the practicalities of implementing them. I don't think the Wikimedia foundation has the resources to do any kind of major re-design, at least not quickly.
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on “Wikipedia Redefined”Submitted Creativity is Not Design - Design Test 2 as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttp://andyrutledge.com/images09/newsSite/images/iphone_nyt_... -- in here lower-contrast is used properly, I think. Low-contrast allowed to hide the low-priority details allowing the brain to quickly navigate through important, high-contrast titles. Not all text is important.
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on “Webdesigners: please make text readable”Submitted How Well Do You Understand Design? as a story · 15 points
HN discussion> if everything was high contrast, everything would be SCREAMING AT YOU FOR ATTENTION Simply not true. There's many more factors besides contrast that determine attention focus. See this excellent series on gestalt principles of design: http://www.andyrutledge.com/gestalt-principles-1-figure-grou... (it's five parts you need to click to get to the other 4) Also see http://24ways.org/2007/typesetting-tables which sho…
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on “Webdesigners: please make text readable”Submitted Designers as Pawns and Useful Idiots as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSeems to compare favorably to the Andy Rutledge redesign ( http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php ) save for the ads. The ads on the story pages don't work as well resulting in horizontal scrolling.
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on “New Boston Globe website design”Submitted Buying shampoo: A cautionary tale about the failure of marketing as a story · 11 points
HN discussionActually, he's a pretty staunch conservative, not to mention an all around douche. Remember his 2008 redesign of USA.gov? http://www.andyrutledge.com/usa-dot-gov-redux.php
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on “Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com”Submitted Andy Rutledge Responds as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIn this post, yes (though he does insinuate that the NY Times has too strong of an editorial bias). In others, no: https://twitter.com/#!/andyrutledge/status/95664717669994496 https://twitter.com/#!/andyrutledge/status/94536441488621569 http://www.andyrutledge.com/how-to-join-aiga.php Again, if it works for him, great. It just makes it harder for me personally to be objective about him and his work.
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on “Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com”- pg · 2007-07-24
Submitted Andy Rutledge: Quiet Structure as a story · 10 points
HN discussion I don't know. There is a serious amount of low hanging fruit available. If you read this, you'll be better at design: (5 parts): https://www.andyrutledge.com/gestalt-principles-1-figure-gro... It won't take 6-12 months. Maybe an hour?
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on “I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games”Submitted News Redux as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor starters, see the footer: http://www.andyrutledge.com/calculating-hours.php (His home page is changed so doesn't link to them all) http://www.alistapart.com/ Does talk about psychology and logic behind design. http://52weeksofux.com/ UX And Don't make me think. An awesome book on usability: http://amzn.to/uZ4uH5 I haven't found any great resource on Information Architecture yet. <selfpromiton> I wrote a very bri…
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on “Books For Learning to Design, The Hard Way”Submitted The UX Design Education Scam as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThat simply isn't true. > Since news is accessed only via subscription, most of the ads can be eliminated from the pages. Story pages could still have one or two tastefully-presented ads, but preservation of the content is what will keep readers happy, engaged, and willing to continue paying their subscriptions…just like in olden times. http://andyrutledge.com/images09/newsSite/nyt-redux-article....
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on “Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes redesign)”Submitted Op-Ed response to the talk given at TED by Patty Maes as a story · 5 points
HN discussion"Completely" is unfair. See: http://andyrutledge.com/images09/newsSite/nyt-redux-article.... But just come out and say "we had to cover the site in ads and couldn't do a better design" if that's the case.
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on “Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes redesign)”Submitted Profit, Lies, Theft, and Idiocy - designers and developers selling out as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBased on the timing, I believe he's talking about the redesign exercise Andy Rutledge did @ http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php Khoi Vinh is being a poor sport here. Criticism is an important part of the design world. In school we're taught to use criticism as another resource and learn from it. The design team at the New York Times could have learned a lot from this 'unsolicited' exercise. Instead, they chose to…
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on “Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes redesign)”Submitted Sales: The Fail Team as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I think the redesign he refers to but does not link to is this: http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php
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on “Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes redesign)”Submitted Journalism. (Rutledge on the aftermath of his NYT redesign) as a story · 3 points
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