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Lee Munroe
Personal blog · leemunroe.comdesignweb
Lee Munroe's personal blog at leemunroe.com covers design and web. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “How To Validate A Feature Idea In 5 Minutes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lee Munroe's post on Steve Jobs taking a calligraphy class as an example of how that course shaped Jobs and the design of the Macintosh. The comments cite it as support rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Design, engineering, and product. Leading design and product teams, making email, messaging and developer tools.
Most-linked posts?
- How To Validate A Feature Idea In 5 Minutes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-06
- Tools to guide your design decisions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-07
- Things I've learned building and coding HTML email templates2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-10
- /steve-jobs-calligraphy/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-19
What Hacker News says?
Yes. Jobs famously took a calligraphy class at Reed college, and mentioned frequently how it influenced him and e.g. the design of the Macintosh. http://www.leemunroe.com/steve-jobs-calligraphy/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-tribute-to-a-gr...
Comment linking /steve-jobs-calligraphy/
on “Apple and LaTeX”Submitted Things I've learned building and coding HTML email templates as a story · 7 points
HN discussionone example: "Steve Jobs on Taking a Calligraphy Class" https://www.leemunroe.com/steve-jobs-calligraphy/
Comment linking /steve-jobs-calligraphy/
on “Ask HN: Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult?”Submitted Checking Your Site For Visual Hierarchy as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWhy not do both? Negotiate a part-time role with the mainstream company, work around your class schedule. The boss surely wouldn't want to feel guilty that he kept you from completing a degree. College value can be difficult to calculate. A good campus environment can expose you to some wonderfully random, useful people and ideas found nowhere else. The Steve Jobs calligraphy story is a classic example> http://www.l…
Comment linking /steve-jobs-calligraphy/
on “Ask HN: Is college even worth it if you're worth your salt as a programmer?”Submitted How HTML5 element names were decided as a story · 5 points
HN discussion[1] http://www.leemunroe.com/email-design-workflow/
Comment linking /email-design-workflow/
on “Ask HN: What's your email design/development workflow like?”Submitted Beginners Guide to Sending Email for Web Designers and Developers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Motherplate - A Bare Bones HTML5 CSS3 SCSS Responsive Boilerplate as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Validate A Feature Idea In 5 Minutes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned from Responsive Email Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to set up a .io domain on Heroku as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing for high resolution Retina displays as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing Better Web Type With Typecast as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS3 Animated Loading Bar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools to guide your design decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools That Help Inform Design Decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I've Learned About Building and Coding HTML Email Templates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rapid User Research with Intercom, PowWow and GoToMeeting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Developers Should Know About Sending Email as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tools I Use For Web Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Validate a feature idea in 5 minutes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing for high-resolution Retina displays as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Icon Fonts Are Awesome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Design A Parallax Recruiting Page as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great user experience with gradual engagement sign ups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to get great user feedback as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The benefits of interactive prototypes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to improve copy for a better user experience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going from adaptive to fully responsive as a story · 1 points
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