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Scott Hurff
Personal blog · scotthurff.com/posts · on HN as scottiehdesignwriting
Scott Hurff's personal blog at scotthurff.com covers design and writing. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “How to Design for Thumbs in the Era of Huge Screens”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Scott Hurff's posts on designing for thumbs on large phone screens, including a thumb-zone heat map. Commenters cite its diagrams as a source on mobile touch layout.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writer and product maker. Wrote "Designing Products People Love," published by O'Reilly.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Design for Thumbs in the Era of Huge Screens3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-09-18
- How to fix a bad user interface2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-07
- How to design for thumbs in the Era of Screens2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-12
- 16 CEOs & product designers teach you how to ship products faster in new book2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-10
What Hacker News says?
I can also hold them for you while switched on without issue. I photographed them switched off because it was faster to do it this way, as otherwise I’d first have to power them on and set them up. But notice the Moto G (2014) in the album, which is on, and doesn’t show interference. Or,look at this helpful graphic Scott Hurf made http://scotthurff.com/images/posts/thumb-zone-2/thumb-zones-...
Comment linking /images/posts/thumb-zone-2/thumb-zones-lineup.png
on “Google and the Resurgence of Italian Design”Submitted Facebook Paper's gesture problems as a story · 130 points
HN discussion> Also, what is your background in UX? I’m studying compsci, took several classes on the topic, and have previously also participated in courses outside of university where we did UX work more practically. > what are you talking about? I have a Samsung S4, which the sort of "4-5 inch" (translation: 10-13 cm) phone you're talking about, yes? Scott Hurf made this helpful graphic: http://scotthurff.com/images/posts/thu…
Comment linking /images/posts/thumb-zone-2/thumb-zones-lineup.png
on “Google and the Resurgence of Italian Design”Submitted How to fix a bad user interface as a story · 127 points
HN discussionThose diagrms come from here: http://scotthurff.com/posts/how-to-design-for-thumbs-in-the-... though even there I cannot find any explanation for "ow-space". Maybe a reference to some game?
Comment linking /posts/how-to-design-for-thumbs-in-the-era-of-huge-screens
on “Redesigning the smartphone dial pad”Submitted How Secret uses your address book as a story · 11 points
HN discussionFrom a few years ago with a Thumb Zone Heat Map - https://www.scotthurff.com/posts/how-to-design-for-thumbs-in... (searching around, this appears to be the source since other blog posts that include it or mention it with attribution have 'Based on Scott Hurffs "How to design for thumbs in the era of huge screens"'
Comment linking /posts/how-to-design-for-thumbs-in-the-era-of-huge-screens/
on “Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?”Submitted What product designers can learn from iOS 8's iMessage changes as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted 16 CEOs & product designers teach you how to ship products faster in new book as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Design for Thumbs in the Era of Huge Screens as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get Animations Out of Your Head as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to fix a bad user interface as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Learn Quartz Composer and Origami as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted George Lucas, Metallica & Steve Jobs: creators who live on the fringe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to design for thumbs in the Era of Screens as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Content Is the Hero as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to fix a bad user interface as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Design for Thumbs in the Era of Huge Screens as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using science to make truly tappable user interfaces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steal these four lessons I learned while building an App Store featured app as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Video Course to Learn Quartz Composer in Five Days as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perfecting Product Design – Make Jony Ive weep with joy as a story · 1 points
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