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Jennifer Morrow
Personal blog · jboriss.wordpress.comdesignweb
Jennifer Morrow's personal blog at jboriss.wordpress.com covers design and web. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “User Testing in the Wild: Joe’s First Computer Encounter (2011)”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jennifer Morrow's posts on Flash's decline and what HTML can now do, and on Firefox and Ubuntu removing vertical UI, usually as sources or support for their own points.
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.
Firefox User Experience Design
Most-linked posts?
- User Testing in the Wild: Joe’s First Computer Encounter (2011)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-07-07
What Hacker News says?
> streaming video, streaming audio Partly works now if you don't need much control over it, or if you do work on the server to split the media into chunks. Full streaming support in progress, see WebRTC and other ongoing work. > socket connections See WebSocket, which has gone through some initial hiccups but otherwise works fine. > fast 3d WebGL provides 3D which runs as fast as the user's system can handle. > adve…
Comment linking /2011/10/19/enabling-real-time-communication-on-the-web-platform/
on “Flash is dead. Long live the internet.”Submitted User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer as a story · 513 points
HN discussionBoth Ubuntu and Firefox have stated that they're going to get rid of most of the vertical UI you mention. http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/removing-firefoxs-st... http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/333 I'm hopeful they've actually communicated about this in private with each other, but maybe that's hoping for too much.
Comment linking /2010/04/29/removing-firefoxs-status-bar-and-rehousing-add-on-icons-part-1-of-2/
on “Unity: a lightweight netbook interface for Ubuntu”Submitted User Testing in the Wild: Joe’s First Computer Encounter (2011) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How users recognize representations of websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defeating the Cookie Monster: How Firefox can Improve Online Privacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted That Pesky Design Process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video controls for live feeds: instant replay for the web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox Changing Behavior of Ctrl+Tab in Latest Nightlies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Testing in the Wild: Joe’s First Computer Encounter (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Experience Study of a 60yo man who has never used a computer before as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MS Proposes a Browser Ballot for European Windows Users, it is Not Awesome as a story · 1 points
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