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- shellie0
Going to Atlanta in 2 weeks. It will be my first time actually being able to touch the city. I've only been flown in for less than 24 hours in the past and saw nothing but the venue I worked in. Any suggestions for my one day off?
- Ramanisky will be your personal tour guide.utopian
- Haha thnx Utopian.
unfortunately I'll be in Florida for a week.Ramanisky2 - wouldnt mind some tips tho ram.shellie
- bliznutty0
Ricky Williams is the absolute true definition of an enlightened man. I have magnitudes of respect for him and his life story is an incredible journey of self discovery in the public eye. Do yourself a favor and watch 'Run Ricky Run'.
- kona5
lol
Same guy I mentioned above emails me today "We may have a problem with the app. Very poor visibility with brightness situation"
I thought maybe the guy had stumbled upon a bug or some design flaw we hadn't thought of so I go find him to investigate.
He says "Yeah see, watch, this is a HUGE usability flaw and totally unintuitive." He then proceeds to bring up his iPhones brightness window and turns it to zero...
"See... I can't see our app anymore!"
'I'll look into it' I tell him as I walk away. Knowing this asshole, he's going around telling his bosses that there is a usability flaw with our app.
I'm damn near tempted to set up a meeting where he walks us through the flaw so his bosses can see first hand the helmet he is.
- you have to set up a meeting. that would be so fun. then open any other app and do the same thing for the whole room.capn_ron
- please, please do.detritus
- Best to be upfront with your bosses beforehand though and confirm to them that your App is damn-near useless when the user's eyes are closed. Just in casedetritus
- lol, do it!OBBTKN
- lol @ "unintuitive"monospaced
- Set up a meeting as this guy has created a 'stink'. Mention him in the email subject. Then in the meeting ask him to demonstrate and be as shocked as the othersmugwart
- Is he in marketing, sounds like something someone in marketing would say/do...whatthefunk
- Kona brother, you have no time for tools like this, take him outside and kick him in the nuts. He deserves no less._niko
- improve the visibility, tweak the contrast to make it visible at minimum brightness and make his concerns go away. don't fucking fight, make it a win for your..uan
- ...design. call in the meeting and present the improved UX design you worked out.uan
- might be a valid point.doesnotexist
- I agree with uan. If the app is not visible on an iPhone at min brightness, there is indeed a visual flaw. Numerous users will have difficulty viewing it.imbecile
- You need to livestream this meeting
Just DO IT!!!Ramanisky2 - Yo kona...I just got a bona.utopian
- So up the contrast and make it a non issue and accessible. That guy still overreacted and could have just approached it in a constructive way.monospaced
- lol at the earnest replies, you miserable fuds.face_melter
- haha...omg
- lol@fuds. The text is black on a white background. No fucking idea how to tweak the contrast any more than that.kona
- oh, well then, fuck that guy.imbecile
- seriously? lolmonospaced
- Yep. He's being obnoxious for absolutely no reason other than to be obnoxious. Even the secondary text that's #505f6f shows up clear as day.kona
- The only unintuitive part, which you should remind him of, is turning the brightness all the way down for no reason.monospaced
- MrT0
Do you think they did this themselves or the printer does it somehow? Anyone seen it before?
I would have asked myself but I burned the bridge at the time by pointing out it's afternoon tea, not high tea.
- I'm a shit linkerMrT
- looks home done to me by the uneven nature. Maybe some form of hammering the edges to get that effect.capn_ron
- i like the filename :)scarabin
- Looks like they took a stack of the cards and repeatedly put a ruler along the side and twatted it with a hammer.detritus
- I think 'twatted it with a hammer' is the proper print term?detritus
- yes, it is. I have a twat hammer, actuallyGnash
- Twatted It With A Hammer Of The Day™
or TIWAHOTD™ for shortcapn_ron - Awesome. I've sent that spec to a printer to price. Watch this space...MrT
- sarahfailin1
Just watched Cornell West on Bill Maher, and is he getting crazy? I used to really respect the guy but he's so theatrical now. I think he has been on CNN too long.
- And off the mark too. He has had spirit, but he was smart.sarahfailin
- Yeah, he was being obtuse.DRIFTMONKEY
- link?bklyndroobeki
- bainbridge0
Who do you put for references on a job application?
- Beeswax0
A friend of mine has nice hotel on the aegean coast of Turkey.
They were in contact with this agent from Manchester who would bring them a group of travelers for this summer.She called in today and cancelled the reservations.
Hotel's name is ISIS, the egyptian god.
- ouch_niko
- That's going to be a tough sell for Westerners for a while, sadly (for history).
It's a shame we call those sad muppets ISIS, rather than Daesh.detritus - I used to think Isis was the prettiest name, and had even considered it as a name for a future daughter. Oh well.monospaced
- I still think it's a pretty name. Total shame.monospaced
- even archer had to change it ffS_niko
- do it mono - don't let them winFax_Benson
- :)monospaced
- but the name is your assumption correct? where as it could be a ton of other things?deathboy
- one perhaps is they don't like the band ISISdeathboy
- please, deathboy, just stop typingmonospaced
- detritus0
23:46 and receiving client calls, and actually picking up and talking.
i'm doing something massively wrong with my life.
- sarahfailin0
My boss is so ADD she can't manage her own tasks, much less mine or the 3 other people underneath her.
- I had one like that. But he didn't have ADD. He just had a booze and cocaine problem.shellie
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- mg330
Do any of you have work spaces in offices that consist of tall tables with barstools? We've got a workspace like that at a client's office that we use regularly. Managed to sit in one yesterday for far longer than I usually do and MY LOWER BACK IS KILLING ME right now.
- pinkfloyd0
Some client wanted to interview at 8am and I said afternoons are better. He replies if I can chat 7am tomorrow. Should I tell him to fuck off?
- Naturallyset
- Say, "a little earlier might be better for me, how about 1am?"robotron3k
- ^donepinkfloyd
- he replied if i could do 3am pacificpinkfloyd
- I told him if he couldn't respect my time, I didn't want to work with someone like himpinkfloyd
- Just say you are not available during those time. No need to go hostile.pango
- Ask if you can meet face to face at Point Nemo.i_monk
- adds point nemo to roledexpinkfloyd
- Why aren't you available? Sleeping or some other reason?stoplying
- Sleepingpinkfloyd
- Yes, tell them to fuck off.
I had a [new] client phone me up at 10.30 last night, and it was only because I'd had a couple that I answered. What a cunt. Both.detritus - Ask if he wants to meet yesterday and if that isn't possible, what about 17 months ago?face_melter
- Get up early you lazy cunt...BusterBoy
- lol @ last twoMrT
- I agree with face. Wake up early lazy boy!stoplying
- detritus-1
22:44.
Currently: manually reapplying a faked laser-cut edge on 160 wooden units, because I mis-specced the 'stain' which is actually more like a [fucking] paint, so all the edges are marred by my shit technique.
I have these otherwise beautiful Windsor and Newton 'Brush Pens' the nibs of which are getting ripped to shreds by the sharp plywood edges.
I'll be here for about another hour and a half doing this shit.
Yaay my life.
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Mind you, am watching Montalbano as I do it — idiot-level TV-watching and innappropriately-accented Italian submersion (it's set in Sicily, which by all accounts has the accent equivalent of Geordie... which is perhaps why I can get it a bit better than most other Italian)
- PonyBoy10
I have a well-paying (regular) client that I'll do the occasional proof-of-concept work for... this is down and dirty (you'll see some artifacts in there)... but it sold them. Who'd of thought that making fun of an owner Terrance & Phillip style would sell a job? :)
- sarahfailin-1
if it's bad for you to scratch your itchy allergy eyes, then why does it feel so fucking good?? I can't stop!
- like scratching a mosquito bitemoldero
- Too much and you'll cause Buscemi!MrT
- eyes drops
apply themimbecile - go cut some chillis.moldero
- some qbn bukkakepinkfloyd
- ^ it cures everything.pango
- "Scratching an itch causes minor pain, which prompts the brain to release serotonin....Gnash
- ... But serotonin also reacts with receptors on neurons that carry itch signals to the brain, making itching worse."Gnash
- I'm using the Allergic Trinity and it works, about 50-70% less allergies. > Nose Spray, Pills, Eye Drops with anti-allergic stuff in it.Bennn
- ^ god damn! I just let the allergens take mefuturefood
- detritus1
I skipped work today, but it's too hot to actually do anything. I've managed 20 minute bursts in the garden but quickly get bothered by the heat.
So here I am at home on a sneaky day off, reading in the shade.
PARTY ANIMAL
- bklyndroobeki0
When a QBNer gives you dating tips, just take it.
- They've got your back.bklyndroobeki
- Piitb!!pango
- ^sarahfailin
- kinda rapey?since1979
- inteliboy0
the file size of animated gifs theses days is absurd.
RIP data plans.