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Timoni West
Personal blog · blog.timoni.orgdesignculture
Timoni West writes Tumblr, a personal blog at blog.timoni.org about design and culture. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “A practical boarding pass redesign”. The last post was in 2018, 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 Timoni West's blog for her redesign of the airline boarding pass, which accounts for the constraints the pass must meet, and for a post on wardrobe choices and what is worth owning.
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.
Timoni West's collection of interesting things and ideas. Generally focused on psychology, product design, and science. If you want to know what I'm reading and thinking about, here you go.
Most-linked posts?
- A practical boarding pass redesign7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-01-18
- Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-08
What Hacker News says?
Here are some others that are interesting: Vitamin Cr : http://vitamincr.com Brain pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/ Synaptic Stimuli: http://synapticstimuli.com/ Timoni's blog: http://blog.timoni.org/
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on “What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?”Submitted Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear as a story · 173 points
HN discussionThere was a post a few years ago that detailed many of the archaic and somewhat obscure requirements that boarding passes must have: http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... It seems as though Virgin America can bypass many of these because there are no (?) international flights. The original boarding pass redesign post, to which the above was a rebuttal: http://passfail.squarespace.com/ Edit:…
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on “The new VirginAmerica.com”Submitted The most important page on Flickr as a story · 43 points
HN discussionWhen I saw their new boarding pass I just had to laugh. Someone awhile back went and redesigned Delta's boarding pass[1] and got a lot of crap over it for not taking into account why the boarding pass was the way it was.[2][3] But apparently someone at Virgin was taking notes. [1] http://passfail.squarespace.com/ [2] http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... [3] http://www.ryanholiday.net/this-…
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on “The new VirginAmerica.com”Submitted Don’t Be Afraid To Teach Interactions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA far better attempt at redesigning the boarding pass was done by Timoni West: http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... Unlike the author of this post, West actually endeavored to understand the constraints and requirements before undertaking a redesign. That's the mark of a truly competent designer.
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on “Redesigning the airport boarding pass (2010)”Submitted A practical boarding pass redesign as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck out Timoni West's design, which takes these things into account: http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... Note that she wrote this in January, 2010.
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on “Boarding Pass Redesign”Submitted Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPreviously: http://passfail.squarespace.com/ http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... Within the next 10 years, boarding passes are going to be obsolete anyways.
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on “Boarding Pass Redesign”This was on HN before... but I can't seem to find it. This was another design based off of it that I thought was interesting - http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p...
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on “Increasing the design efficiency of airline boarding passes”Very relevant article from the opposite sex pov from awhile back: http://blog.timoni.org/post/24619757935/why-i-wear-the-same-... Really made me rethink what was in my own closet and what was worth owning (and nice obligatory hat tip to William Gibson). As with most things, less is more.
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on “How to Hack Dressing Well”
