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Newfangled
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Newfangled is the company blog at newfangled.com, writing about business and design. Since 2008, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 61 times, most often “Don't Make Me Search! Why Profiling Matters to User Experience More than Search”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Newfangled for its web prototyping and wireframing process, shown in a video and a four-picture summary, and for an article on how Gmail image caching affects spy pixels.
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.
We generate ideal new business opportunities by creating and nurturing digital marketing systems and habits.
Most-linked posts?
- Don't Make Me Search! Why Profiling Matters to User Experience More than Search2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-11
- We Don't Build Websites Anymore2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-09
What Hacker News says?
The basic, classic Salesforce UI. In this screenshot the classic is on the left, the new one they pushed already years ago on the right: https://www.newfangled.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LEXOpp...
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on “Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?”Submitted Advice for young developers as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThis is excellent and a very useful tool that does exactly what many of the leading design agencies already do in-house e.g. as shown in the 10min video at http://www.newfangled.com/web_development_prototyping_proces... . I look forward to using this tool more and seeing how it progresses.
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on “Balsamiq - Software and Website Mockup App”Submitted Should you post your content on Medium? No. as a story · 25 points
HN discussionWatch the video in the link... http://www.newfangled.com/web_development_prototyping_proces... . (If you don’t want to watch the video above it is summarised in 4 nice pictures at http://onwired.com/portfolio/ ) I..it is baciscally creating an interactive wireframe without the graphics and focused on structure and interaction. I am a developer, not really a designer, and working with others i have found we have some…
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on “What's the best website prototyping/wireframe/greyscreening product(s) you have used?”Submitted A Case Against the Gridded Homepage as a story · 19 points
HN discussionCurrently, I mostly follow a process outlined nicely in the link below (expect for greyscreening interactively, my grey screening is done with everyone sitting and editing a Dreamweaver template based solution together)... http://www.newfangled.com/web_development_prototyping_proces... (If you don’t want to watch the video above it is summarised in 4 nice pictures at http://onwired.com/portfolio/ ) I am thinking abo…
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on “What's the best website prototyping/wireframe/greyscreening product(s) you have used?”Submitted The way you design web content is about to change as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI thought I remembered that too. According to this article ( https://www.newfangled.com/how-gmail-image-caching-is-affect... ) they don't fetch the image until you open it (so only subsequent reads are affected).
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on “No to Spy Pixels”Submitted "After Content Marketing" -- on the future of this racket... as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted If They Are Watching, Should You Watch Too? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven Pages Control Your Prospect’s Experience as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What We've Learned About Responsive Design as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Write a Better Case Study as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Make Me Search! Why Profiling Matters to User Experience More than Search as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Micro-Results Are Better Than Case Studies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Do When Prospects Don’t Read Your Case Studies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted This is the best way to design a capabilities landing page as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted This is the Best Way to Design Your Home Page as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A List of Things Designers Think that are Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parallax Websites, the Right(ish) Way as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Much Time is Necessary for Website Testing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Hoarding Your Ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Don't Build Websites Anymore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is No "Design" Phase as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choose a developer, not a CMS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science Fiction Origins of Consumer Technology (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If Your Home Page Isn't Doing This, It's Broken as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four elements that will help your content hub perform better as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Rules for Writing Better Case Studies as a story · 1 points
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