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Gavin Elliott

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Gavin Elliott's personal blog at gavinelliott.co.uk covers design and career. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.

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2010–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2012

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Why HN links it

Linked for a post about a UX experiment on button design, where users were asked which button they would pick. One commenter questions whether that test setup skews the results.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Lead Product Designer at Deel. Writing about product design, design leadership and building products with AI.

What Hacker News says?

  1. relix · 2010-08-15
    Wouldn't asking "which button" instead of making them click a button, skew the results? I think it's weird users would choose the giant red unfriendly "DENY" button over the friendly green "Approve" button. The red button definitely stands out more, but maybe the user would be hesitant to click it because of the negative connotation created by the alarming color and wording. Apparently the author was as surprised as…

    Comment linking /2010/07/call-to-action-buttons/

    on “The evolution of a button”
  2. gavinelliott · 2011-07-01

    Submitted The healthy future of the web industry maybe short-lived as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  3. slater · 2010-08-14

    Submitted The evolution of a button as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. gavinelliott · 2012-07-24

    Submitted Funded Startup? Don't hire to train. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. joshuacc · 2011-12-05

    Submitted Users expect things to work from what they see as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. gavinelliott · 2011-10-13

    Submitted The un-nerving lack of women in tech and how we can fix it as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. gavinelliott · 2012-07-23

    Submitted Forcing Culture Doesn't Create a Happy Culture as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. gavinelliott · 2012-05-01

    Submitted It's not about the $1Billion as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. gavinelliott · 2012-02-28

    Submitted Controlling Product as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. gavinelliott · 2012-02-20

    Submitted Fixing a problem? Why I opened talk submissions for the Industry Web Conference as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. gavinelliott · 2011-07-26

    Submitted Management: Exit Stage Left as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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