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Brandon Walkin
Personal blog · brandonwalkin.com/blogdesignprogramming
Brandon Walkin's personal blog at brandonwalkin.com covers design and programming. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Managing UI Complexity”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Brandon Walkin's blog for UI design examples and for his Cocoa and Mac interface work. One describes him as a detail-oriented UI designer and Cocoa developer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Product Designer
Most-linked posts?
- Managing UI Complexity3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-08-12
- /blog/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-02
What Hacker News says?
Here are a bunch of blogs from my RSS reader that I think are worth reading. Some of them haven't updated in a while, but the archives may be worth a look anyway. * Blogs with a math focus: http://blog.sigfpe.com http://bit-player.org http://mathr.co.uk/blog/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/ * Blogs with a programming languages focus: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com https://bluishcoder.co.nz http://blog.ezyang.…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”Submitted Xcode UI Improvements as a story · 112 points
HN discussionThis is what it mean: http://brandonwalkin.com/blog/images/LightroomVsExpressionBl... This time not from my own blog but from Brandon Walkins
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on “Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?”Submitted Managing UI Complexity as a story · 63 points
HN discussionFacebook is up to something really big. Awhile ago they brought on Brandon Walkin ( http://www.brandonwalkin.com/blog/ ) who is, arguably, one of the most detailed-oriented user interface designers on the planet. He's also a very talented Cocoa developer and apps that he's worked on have won Apple Design Awards. Next, they acquired Sofa, another Apple Design Award-winning design & software firm who have created some…
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on “Push Pop Press acquired by Facebook”Submitted Managing UI Complexity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI believe that fullscreen mode is a separate view that the application can use if the developer creates one. And the palette windows will most likely be in the style of iPhoto, so Apple will most likely public classes for these, a la BWToolkit: http://brandonwalkin.com/blog/images/transparent3.png
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on “Apple iOS 4.2 to Support MIDI”Submitted BWToolkit: Interface builder plugin for OSX as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have to agree. The large bold type in short lines is hard to read. As with HN, you should be able to scan quickly. I like larger type than most people so that's good, but longer line lengths are essential. Another subtle thing about HN and is the color. The black (or almost black) and white is too jarring for quick scanning. If you want to keep the box design with images check out http://www.notcot.org/ . Also, th…
Comment linking /blog/2009/08/10/managing-ui-complexity/
on “Ask HN: Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign)”
