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Erics

1:23 AM

Ben Brocka

2:03 AM

@Erics I love clubbing, baby seals! They're so adorable!

Blizzard making virtual currency "bank" thingy

I wish Nintendo/Xbox/Sony would cut the shit and stop using the virtual currency stuff. It just makes it hard to buy things and confuses users

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Ben Brocka

3:05 AM

Newgrounds finally redesigned

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Matt Rockwell

4:26 PM

tink! (sound of pin dropping)

Rahul

4:52 PM

Don't panic? Windows 8 and the ribbonification of Explorer

ie. some random tech journalist trashes the Ribbon again for no reason other than that "it looks ugly"

dnbrv

I still don't understand why "Find commands" isn't standard

It's such an awesome feature to shut all haters up

Ben Brocka

5:53 PM

I forgot, Win 8 remove start button

Rahul

I'm so excited about W8

Anytime someone has the testicles to step away from the status quo, really

I'm also cautiously excited for Microsoft

Ben Brocka

I'm sure bricks will be shat over the start button removal

Rahul

Things would be great if Google, MS, Apple and others all started warring over the UX

Ben Brocka

I wish they'd get a damn win 8 tablet our earlier than never

2013 is the earliest date I've heard, or was it 2014...

@Rahul it's what they should have been doing all along

MS has finally started to realize it and has been doing good work though

Rahul

yep

Google too, their new design is a big signal that their internal UX team is on a different level than before

Ben Brocka

5:58 PM

With them focusing on it smaller companies are finally realizing that they need UX too

@Rahul yeah, finally getting a damn sense of cohesion and convention

I really have to wonder if Nielson intentionally makes his site ugly. Perhaps it helps him avoid complains that his site is emphasizing UX/beauty/something over usability.

dnbrv

6:13 PM

@BenBrocka Except for the part that it at least should have a fixed width and not splatter across all 1920 of my pixels

Rahul

His website isn't ugly

It's just not conventionally beautiful

I like it a lot though

dnbrv

Content is good but some visuals are questionable

Ben Brocka

7:07 PM

@dnbrv the content is a fixed max width

@Rahul With the nav bar with the unnecessary margin and only one border? The navbar just looks like a glitch

@dnbrv oh, I guess the front page isn't. I usually only see the articles

Like playboy, I real Alertbox for the articles

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Rahul

9:42 PM

Dangerous question ahoy

Q: UX Management: Best Practice for Wireframe/Prototype Deliverable Evaluation

On the User Experience Management side of things, how do you evaluate a User Experience Designer's wireframes/prototypes as far as skill progression goes? What metrics or criteria should be used to assess if someone is plateauing or making progress? In my mind, I think the criteria could be a pe...

dnbrv

Very much so. I was wondering why it's still open. =)

And, yet, you answered it, @Rahul...

Rahul

Oh, it's a perfectly valid question

But I'm scared that there are people out there who think UX designers should be managed this way :)

dnbrv

I don't like "best practice" questions

Q: Responsive design - IE issues

I've got a small issue with responsive design in IE that I'm hoping you all can answer. I have a simple web page with a fixed header and fixed left-sidebar, with the main content to the right. When the screen gets small enough, the sidebar needs to switch to about the main content area. It's wor...