Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab.

Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by hv23 on Friday May 11, 2012 @02:35PM (#3960610)

Hey HN, we've noticed that people are starting to understand how valuable design is these days - in order to make great products, design is arguably as important as engineering. Like HN-er @shl says, "everyone in a company needs to learn design literacy" (http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669189/pinterests-founding-desi...). The problem is, we haven't yet found a straightforward way to learn how to become a better designer.

We built a simple product to address this, based on one core principle: the best way to learn design is by doing projects that force you to master the concepts, while allowing you to practice your creativity.

We'll start sending out the first project emails in a couple weeks, so sign up and save a spot! We'd love any and all feedback about this. Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by jerrya on Friday May 11, 2012 @02:51PM (#3960701)

Uh, clicking "Sign Up" appears to do nothing on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

Worse: it looks terrible in IE (where finally, it yields a 500)

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by dhyasama on Friday May 11, 2012 @02:57PM (#3960734)

As others have stated, the signup form doesn't work. I see a 500 response. Looks like there isn't an action set on the form. Hope that helps.

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by sopooneo on Friday May 11, 2012 @03:17PM (#3960845)

And this is where engineering is important.

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by jstanley on Friday May 11, 2012 @02:51PM (#3960698)

Any idea if the sign up is broken?

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by hv23 on Friday May 11, 2012 @03:17PM (#3960843)

Hey guys-- this is terrible, we were not expecting this much traffic. Signups are indeed working, we're pushing a quick fix to address the issue. (if you already signed up, you don't have to enter your email again)

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by huma on Friday May 11, 2012 @08:11PM (#3962100)

Can you reveal the traffic figures and your server spec?

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by phallstrom on Friday May 11, 2012 @02:52PM (#3960711)

It is. Open up a web inspector and it's returning 500 server error.

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