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Dmitry Fadeyev
Personal blog · usabilitypost.comdesignwriting
Dmitry Fadeyev writes The Usability Post, a personal blog at usabilitypost.com about design and writing. Since 2008, 71 different Hacker News readers have linked it 98 times, most often “Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dmitry Fadeyev's usabilitypost.com for UX and web design posts, including font smoothing, small caps, the scroll-up header bar and loading progress bars. Most commenters cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-24
- The Scroll Up Bar3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-26
- Please Stop "Fixing" Font Smoothing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-11-07
- New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-19
- The 1Kb CSS Grid, Part 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-05-29
- The Dark Side Of Usability2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-10
- A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-09-29
- Design is Choice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-19
- OS X Lion Interface Tweaks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-01
- Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-07
What Hacker News says?
More on website loading bar: http://www.usabilitypost.com/2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-websi...
Comment linking /2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-website-loading-bars/
on “NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars”Submitted The Scroll Up Bar as a story · 192 points
HN discussionThis looks really nice. I think I've saw one of the browsers using that space at the top for it's loading bar which looks very similar (I'm not positive on this - it could have been a mobile browser). Edit: Readme says it was inspired by Medium and YouTube - http://www.usabilitypost.com/2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-websi...
Comment linking /2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-website-loading-bars/
on “NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars”Submitted New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars as a story · 190 points
HN discussionI'm one of those people. Still using US$100 Asus Zenfone 4, running Android K; with 8GB internal memory and 1GB RAM. My phone still looking and running good, no scratches, and no lags. I only use 1.56GB internal memory for apps, nothing fancy, just some apps that I truly need. The reason I'm not considering to upgrade my Android is because of this article: It's The User Experience, Stupid.[0] I already see Android O…
Comment linking /2008/12/03/its-the-user-experience-stupid/
on “There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use”Submitted Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012) as a story · 114 points
HN discussionI found this post useful regarding small caps. It seems as though if the typeface contains the glyphs and you're using Chrome or Safari, you can use font-feature-settings: "smcp" http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/10/using-small-caps-and-tex...
Comment linking /2014/05/10/using-small-caps-and-text-figures-on-the-web/
on “Tufte CSS”Submitted A mild case of borderitis as a story · 86 points
HN discussionAlso, check out the article @ usabilitypost.com for the full story: http://www.usabilitypost.com/2009/06/16/introducing-less-a-b...
Comment linking /2009/06/16/introducing-less-a-better-css/
on “Less, a leaner CSS”Submitted Usability Tip: Use Verbs as Labels on Buttons as a story · 53 points
HN discussionFrom HN front page yesterday: http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/24/the-scroll-up-bar/
Comment linking /2014/05/24/the-scroll-up-bar/
on “Headroom.js – hide your header on scroll”Submitted Drop IE6 Support — Give People a Reason to Upgrade as a story · 42 points
HN discussion> When I scroll to the top, I can see the top. Instead, when you begin to scroll to the top you can see the top. If you have an iphone, it's navbar behavior is identical to this. http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/24/the-scroll-up-bar/
Comment linking /2014/05/24/the-scroll-up-bar/
on “Headroom.js – hide your header on scroll”Submitted Google Chrome Uses the Scrollbar to Display Search Results as a story · 40 points
HN discussionI would just like to point out that Stack Exchange doesn't use 99designs anymore. Here's just an example: http://www.usabilitypost.com/2011/04/22/designing-ux-exchang...
Comment linking /2011/04/22/designing-ux-exchange/
on “Stack Overflow's Original 99designs Logo Contest”Submitted Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces as a story · 39 points
HN discussionWhy would you force your users to have inferior font smoothing? This is really bad, don't do it. Subpixel rendering is there for a good reason, don't turn it off. http://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothi...
Comment linking /2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/
on “How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster”Submitted Don't Copy a Design — Steal It as a story · 34 points
HN discussionFirst off, avoid changing that property. It doesn't improve things 10 years later, still relevant - https://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smooth... Secondly, the issue may be the font being used. I don't recognize it, but probably not optimized for modern web screens. Or a "converted" typeface originally designed for print
Comment linking /2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/
on “My thoughts about Fly.io (so far) and other newish technology I'm getting into”Submitted CSS3 Font Smoothing as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI always use the links terminal browser test. If the site is usable in my terminal with the `links https://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smooth... ` command then it is well done. Chances are, if you are using any type of special font rendering to fix a UI issue you are also doing other things on that page that will cause it to not display properly in links. Also, shout out to the author for having th…
Comment linking /2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/
on “Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)”Submitted Zoomable User Interfaces as a story · 27 points
HN discussionGlossy embossed days are far behind. Subtle gradients, trying to achive 3d in 2d space with less cluttered effects. I would say very in tune with Apple's next design iteration. http://www.usabilitypost.com/2011/03/01/simpler-ui-in-lion/
Comment linking /2011/03/01/simpler-ui-in-lion/
on “New Chrome Logo”Submitted Experience vs. Function — a Beautiful UI is Not Always the Best UI as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThis one is 1kb http://www.usabilitypost.com/2009/05/29/the-1kb-css-grid-par...
Comment linking /2009/05/29/the-1kb-css-grid-part-1/
on “Learn CSS Positioning”Submitted Restraint as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThree things: ① I believe this only affects macOS, and has no effect on any other platform. ② There’s no such property as font-smoothing. Only -webkit-font-smoothing and -moz-osx-font-smoothing, with their different values. ③ Attempting to control this is highly controversial. You may prefer it one way, but others may prefer it otherwise. See, for example, https://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smooth…
Comment linking /2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/
on “The Immortal Jellyfish (2015)”Submitted Please Stop "Fixing" Font Smoothing as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI agree, some newspaper's web offerings have been awful in terms of page load and user experience. Not singling any of them out, but I went to a popular UK newspaper's site; it loads hundreds of assets and almost crashes my tablet, and even once it loads half the screen real estate was taken up by a big advert and tiny font in the article. The Guardian (and BBC News) seem to be the only ones taking this seriously so…
Comment linking /2014/05/09/patrick-hamann-on-making-the-guardian-load-under-1000-ms/
on “Independent UK newspaper to cease as print edition”Submitted De-clutter Your Interface with Hover Controls as a story · 13 points
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