This app idea has been made a million times and never works. It's also not hard to make a few divs and copy and paste styles from Figma.
I wish you luck with your project.
Readit News65 commented on Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code github.com/vibeflowing-in... · Posted by u/alepeak
I've used The Design of Everyday Things in many classes I teach. I would agree that it's not practical, but that's not its goal. Instead, it gives you frameworks for thinking about things as well as vocabulary for talking about those things.
Off the top of my head, some of the key ideas include:
* Affordances, that objects should have (often visual) cues that give hints as to how to use things * Mental models, that every design has three different models, namely system implementation, design model, and user model, and that the design model and user model should try to match each other * Gulf of Evaluation (the gap between the current system state and people's understanding of it) and Gulf of Execution (the gap between what people want the system to do and how to use the system to do it) * Kinds of Errors and how to design to prevent and recover from them, e.g. slips (chose the right action but accidentally did the wrong thing, e.g. fat finger) vs mistakes (chose the wrong action to do)
What's particularly useful about Norman's book is that these key ideas apply for all kinds of user interfaces, from command-line to GUI to voice-only to AR/VR to AI chatbot. I'd encourage you to think about this book in this kind of framing, that it gives you general frameworks for reasoning and talking about UX problems rather than specific practical solutions.
I read the Design of Everyday Things and most of it was painfully obvious examples and was overly philosophical.
Design is solving problems so they're intuitive for the user. Obviously a door with a handle shouldn't be a push door, I don't really think you need to write a book about it. And the types of people creating bad design are generally constrained by cost, time, or practicality, not necessarily by education.
> Corporate environments are almost always toxic places to fulfill your emotional needs
Luckily the only emotional need my work fulfills is getting money.
Seems like a torturous way to spend 8 hours a day if you only enjoy it for the money. Do you at least _like_ you job?
65 commented on The recurring dream of replacing developers caimito.net/en/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/glimshe
Spreadsheets replaced developers for that kind of work, while simultaneously enabling multiple magnitudes more work of that type to be performed.
And I would argue speadsheets still created more developers. Analytics teams need developers to put that data somewhere, to transform it for certain formats, to load that data from a source so they can create spreadsheets from it.
So now instead of one developer lost and one analyst created, you've actually just created an analyst and kept a developer.
65 commented on Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them swinburne.edu.au/news/202... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
Day 39585 of HN not knowing anything about selvedge denim, or other nice quality men’s fashion…
Eh, selvedge denim these days is just a fashion trend. It's fine, yeah. But there are other clothes one has to wear besides denim.
65 commented on Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them swinburne.edu.au/news/202... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
65 commented on Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them swinburne.edu.au/news/202... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
Just a tip if you want to prevent shrinkage is to not dry clothes you don't want shrinking. I air dry my pants and any shirts I don't want to shrink.
65 commented on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icon... · Posted by u/lylejantzi3rd
> If a PM tells you to shove a UI style
More than likely designers are making up work to justify their jobs. Not good for your career if you admit the desktop interface was perfected in ~1995.
Yes this is always how it's been, especially if you're a front end developer. Changing designs every few months just for the hell of it is what designers do.
Just get a Mac and stop worrying about this stuff
Seriously. Hacker News is so adamant on Linux it's almost comical. I mean, I get it... this is a site for developers. But I'm a developer and MacOS is great for writing software, the hardware is better than everything else on the market by far, and I don't have to mess around with my computer just to get certain drivers or whatever to work.
I spent $1000 on a Macbook Air, it instantly works with zero headache, has way more app support than Linux, is super fast, and so on.
If I want to play games, I bought the cheapest gaming laptop from Best Buy for like $500 a few years ago and only use that computer to play games.
I will definitely consider adding timelines to future software I make, it's an awesome feature.