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Re:1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @12:19PM (#43174692)
Along similar lines - it's worth seeking out Kurt Stenzel's – Jodorowsky's Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

https://www.discogs.com/master/921405-Kurt-Stenzel-Jodorowsk...

An imagined view on what this OST would have sounded like to accompany to documentary (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/).

Re:The NASA Task Load Index (TLX) on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:28AM (#33262736)
A subjective workload assessment tool which allows users to perform subjective workload assessments on operator(s) working with various human-machine interface systems.
Recommendations in this area;

Books

'The Making of Karateka' by Jordan Mechner http://amzn.eu/5iUrxxo

'The Making of Prince of Persia' by Jordan Mechner http://amzn.eu/fJ0Nfr2

Documentaries

'From Bedrooms to Billions' http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/about-the-film https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404567/

'From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years!' http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/amiga https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4603210/

Blog Posts

https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/

Hope ^ these prove interesting, will update comment if I think of others ツ

Re:Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @09:57AM (#17073927)
>another mesh standard

Standards!

https://m.xkcd.com/927/ ;)

Ha ツ - thought the same thing when someone shared this site at work

https://twitter.com/whitingx/status/978983203024318464

So we can hopefully look forward to seeing the Superlifter 'Prime Mover' in 'The Player of Games' follow up series ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult...

https://gengo.com/

https://localizejs.com/

^ both useful translation services ツ

https://ux.stackexchange.com/ < has a built in version of the Balsamiq (https://balsamiq.com/) UI drawing tool.

There is a write up on the integration here - https://blog.balsamiq.com/uxstackexchange/

Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you ever owned? on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:35AM (#15516564)
Commodore Amiga 500 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500

Things I do today to earn a living and enjoy myself (Design, Music, Games) I got into via the Amiga ツ

(A great retrospective of the Amiga here - https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/)

Re:Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:37AM (#14514459)
> have there ever been any advances in this field to make the process go faster

Speed Archaeology! https://youtu.be/m11VH-dUPEk ;)

Re:Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @04:03AM (#12164033)
DMS = Document Management System ツ
Re:Marvel Styleguide on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:19AM (#11628075)
Nice ツ

(though when I saw the link title was hoping it would be a companion piece to this DC style guide - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.207954002578217.59... - ツ )

Re:UX Checklist for iOS and Android on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @12:03PM (#11345639)
No problem :)

Aside from the two point mentioned—looks a useful resource, thanks for sharing :)

Re:UX Checklist for iOS and Android on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:57AM (#11345583)
... also :)

"A single font is used throughout the app"

not sure how useful this ⤴ advice is—for example, an app could use different fonts from the 'San Francisco' typeface - http://codemotionapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/San-Fra... - for a consistent design with no real detriment to 'UX'

Re:UX Checklist for iOS and Android on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:50AM (#11345515)
Looks a potentially useful resource :)

On thing—re: 'Differences in navigation are considered.' - Android now has a 'Tab bar' style UI element - https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/bottom-navigat... - so this point might need updating.

Re:Famous websites UX evolution across the years on Monday February 01, 2016 @04:17AM (#11010667)
Nope - “Famous websites UI evolution across the years” - site explains nothing about the UX thinking behind these changes.

:)

Re:Delia Derbyshire – Sculptress of Sound [video] on Thursday November 12, 2015 @09:29AM (#10553286)
Also available (probably UK only) on the BBC page here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rl2ky - which offers an .mp3 download :)
Re:Sign in Sign in Sign In on Monday July 20, 2015 @04:51AM (#9914745)
Doesn't seem great for accessibility the fact that all the 'Sign In' links also have the same link title;

“title="Link opens in a new window"”

http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2012/01/html5-accessibilit...

Re:4Q: the final archive format on Thursday April 16, 2015 @06:11AM (#9386886)

  "the final archive format"
https://xkcd.com/927/

;)

A very useful site - I've been following and promoting it for a while now :)

Could the 'Topics' filter be set to filter by UX events?

Re:Custom UX checklist for your project on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @04:36AM (#9106015)
Hi Nina - looks a useful tool but you have a typo;

"We prepered a UX report for you." should read "We prepared a UX report for you."

Especially based on your UX guideline of "First impression. The homepage creates a positive first impression and supports conversion." :)

Re:Why do we keep repeating the Milgram experiments? on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @06:42AM (#8420420)
Not sure about on stage but there's a few film depictions related to the Milgram experiment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Media_depict...

And looks to be a stage play based on Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment#In_p...

http://entertainment.ie/theatre/feature/ABSOLUT-Fringe-2012-...