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Ordered List
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Ordered List is the company blog at orderedlist.com, writing about web and design. Since 2007, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Ordered List Acquired by GitHub”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's older web design and usability articles, including pieces on intuitive interfaces, live search filtering with jQuery, conference name tags, design constraints, and CSS font smoothing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Ordered List Acquired by GitHub2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-05
- Stop Being an Idiot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-03
- Conference Badge Design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-25
What Hacker News says?
From their blog post: What Happens to Your Products? GitHub cares about their customers, and they care about ours as well. For the short term, it means that not much will change at all. In fact, it means better, more frequent updates and feature additions, more stability, and even better support. For the long term, just as before, we will continue to evolve our products to best meet the needs of the market and our b…
Comment linking /blog/articles/ordered-list-acquired-by-github/
on “Ordered List is a GitHubber”Submitted Stop Being an Idiot as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI'm gonna go out on a limb and tell you that John's probably happy at his own company, http://orderedlist.com/
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on “Hi My Name is John…and I am addicted to analytics”Submitted Single Line CSS as a story · 43 points
HN discussionStop Being An Idiot - http://orderedlist.com/our-writing/blog/articles/stop-being-... "Our job, when designing features and interfaces, is to make them powerful, usable, and understandable. Not to cater to those people too lazy to think. Our job is to make things intuitive. But intuition still requires an individual to want to understand something. It requires an attempt to understand. It requires thought, even subc…
Comment linking /our-writing/blog/articles/stop-being-an-idiot/
on “Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots”Submitted Lessons Learned Bootstrapping Harmony as a story · 23 points
HN discussionHere are a few links from my bookmark folder on the subject, in no particular order: How to use contrast to your advantage- http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/rule-three-contrast-co... Use colors that have varying intensities, not just differnet colors. Focus on how it looks in greyscale http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/becoming-a-master-desi... Visualizing Fitt's Law http://particletree.com/features/visuali…
Comment linking /articles/single-line-css
on “Ask news YC: Your best sources to learn about design & usability”Submitted Structural Tags in HTML5 as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI've seen this done with a Quicksilver style filter as well. Where you don't have to type a strict substring of any of the items. For example typing "US" and still seeing "United States of America". Demo: http://static.railstips.org/orderedlist/demos/quicksilverjs/... Article : http://orderedlist.com/our-writing/blog/articles/live-search...
Comment linking /our-writing/blog/articles/live-search-with-quicksilver-style-for-jquery/
on “A fast, simple list filter with jQuery”Submitted Stop Blogging. as a story · 18 points
HN discussionJohn Nunemaker recently wrote something about this: http://orderedlist.com/our-writing/blog/articles/conference-...
Comment linking /our-writing/blog/articles/conference-badge-design/
on “Conference Organizers Suck at Name Tags”Submitted Live Search with QuickSilver Style (for jQuery) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSteve just posted on the constraints he used to design Gauges: http://orderedlist.com/blog/articles/design-focus-and-constr... Figured that is related so I should mention it here.
Comment linking /blog/articles/design-focus-and-constraints/
on “Give Yourself Constraints”Submitted Ordered List Acquired by GitHub as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe text-shadow hack stopped working when Snow Leopard was released. -webkit-font-smoothing seems to be a specific solution to the same problem. via: http://orderedlist.com/our-writing/resources/html-css/thinni...
Comment linking /our-writing/resources/html-css/thinning-text-in-webkit-safari/
on “CSS3 Font Smoothing”Submitted The Psychology of Happy Passwords as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flared Borders with CSS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Work is Never Done as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted SpeakerDeck is open as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Threat of Creativity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SXSW: My Biggest Mistake as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Guy Blues as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Context and Navigation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Single Line CSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Themes for GitHub Pages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conference Badge Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is The Web Recession Proof? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structural Tags in HTML5 as a story · 1 points
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