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Joshua Porter
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Joshua Porter writes Bokardo, a personal blog at bokardo.com about design and startups. Since 2007, 78 different Hacker News readers have linked it 125 times, most often “Using your Sign-up form as a Qualifier”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joshua Porter's bokardo.com for social and UX design writing, including the Delicious lesson that personal value precedes network value, microcopy, and designing social interfaces.
- Recommended for · 5 comments
- Called 'really good' for explaining the Delicious lesson (personal value precedes network value); 'worth a look' on microcopy; 'read everything you can' on soci
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
Most-linked posts?
- Using your Sign-up form as a Qualifier4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-08-19
- Principles of UI design4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-05-07
- The Del.icio.us Lesson ( May 2nd 2006 )4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-01-28
- Why Apple doesn’t do MVPs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-09-01
- What Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers can teach us about interface design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-01-05
- Writing Microcopy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-09
- Design is not Horsepoop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-17
- The Del.icio.us Lesson: Is your system useful to someone even if nobody else uses it?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-07-24
- Creating Engaged and Passionate Users2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-08
- 1 hour of research saves 10 hours of development time2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-01
What Hacker News says?
There are lots of resources available, but I think following a design process might really help you most at this point.[1] You're going to need to conform the the style and practices of of the larger piece to which your part will fit in. Good design has to be consistent so that the user can have a continuous understanding. From this perspective, might it be possible to generate "working art" and approach the final v…
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on “Laws of UX”Submitted Principles of UI design as a story · 171 points
HN discussionIt's sad, I'm a product designer myself, but labels always win: http://bokardo.com/archives/labels-always-win/
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on “Repository Next”Submitted Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research as a story · 75 points
HN discussion>You may recall that Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft received the same subpoena but did not fight the Feds in court; they instead quietly complied. Correction: Microsoft did not turn over the requested information. http://bokardo.com/archives/microsoft-didnt-give-user-data-t... “Today, Mehdi added some detail concerning what actually happened when the request from the Government was made. First, the Government had asked for i…
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on “Announcing Project Zero”Submitted Why you Should Bury your Sign Up Button as a story · 55 points
HN discussionWas it just me or did anyone else think of "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell? The author of this article implicitly assumes that all the participants of the game come from similar cultural backgrounds. Read: http://bokardo.com/archives/what-malcolm-gladwells-book-outl... Some cultures, e.g. Colombian or South Korean, are more geared towards respecting authority than other cultures, e.g. New Yorkers. A collision of two…
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on “Hacking The Status Game”Submitted Writing Microcopy as a story · 53 points
HN discussionI wrote a response to this: http://bokardo.com/archives/design-is-not-horsepoop/
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on “Design is Horseshit”Submitted The Golden Age of Design in Startups as a story · 42 points
HN discussionAll the way back in 2006, Joshua Porter wrote a really good article illustrating this principle using the example of Delicious: http://bokardo.com/archives/the-delicious-lesson/ The gist of it: The one major idea behind the Del.icio.us Lesson is that personal value precedes network value. What this means is that if we are to build networks of value, then each person on the network needs to find value for themselves…
Comment linking /archives/the-delicious-lesson/
on “On Communities and Content”Submitted Reasons why Google+ is interesting UI as a story · 39 points
HN discussionReminds me of http://bokardo.com/talks/designing-for-social-traction.pdf
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on “Fogg Behavior Model”Submitted Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks: Why Facebook will go Fully Asymmetric as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSome blogs from my Google Reader: Functioning Form: http://www.lukew.com/ff/ flow|state: http://miksovsky.blogs.com Bokardo (social design): http://bokardo.com WeBreakStuff: http://blog.webreakstuff.com/ 37signals: http://37signals.com/svn ParticleTree: http://particletree.com/ Jensen Harris (Office 2K7): http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/ Usability in the News: http://www.usernomics.com/news/user-interface-design-news.…
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on “Ask news YC: Your best sources to learn about design & usability”Submitted Why Social Ads Don't Work as a story · 29 points
HN discussionHow to Write Great Microcopy - http://huffduffer.com/thinkvitamin/22025 Basecamp landing page breakdown - http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/gallery/basecamphqcom.php Using your Sign-Up Form as your Qualifier - http://bokardo.com/archives/using-your-sign-up-form-as-a-qua... Mike McDermott talks Web App Marketing Metrics - http://carsonified.com/blog/business/mike-mcderment-of-fresh... Seven Steps to Remarkable Customer S…
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on “Ask HN: Your "Keeper" articles.”Submitted Paying to get rid of pagination on Slate.com? as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI don't follow any blogs like TechCruch, but here are my favorites (mostly UI, Web, and Python related): http://feeds2.feedburner.com/al3x http://www.azarask.in/blog/feed/ http://bokardo.com/feed/atom/ http://feeds2.feedburner.com/chrismahon http://diveintomark.org/feed/ http://feeds2.feedburner.com/garrettdimoncom http://jacobian.org/feed/ http://www.holovaty.com/rss/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/JohnResig http://mi…
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on “Ask HN: Which tech blog do you follow?”Submitted Functionality, Gamification, and Feedback Loops as a story · 20 points
HN discussionhttp://bokardo.com/archives/the-delicious-lesson/
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on “Ask YC: Why do people share on social websites (like Youtube, Digg, Reddit, YC)?”Submitted Designing for Social Traction (slide deck) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI think article this may be too sparse in details for a subject that so important. For better resources, please see: http://www.bokardo.com - for design of social interfaces (please read everything you can, it's not that much) and http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php?id=bryce (for reputation systems. Bryce is the man here.)
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on “Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques”Submitted The Slow Erosion of Google Search as a story · 19 points
HN discussionWe coded up a very basic one in HTML for ours. (I don't know of any template services.) The core thing you need is an email signup list. We used Campaign Monitor ( http://campaignmonitor.com/ ), but I've also heard good things about MailChimp ( http://www.mailchimp.com/ ). They'll give you the code for a form. It's really simple, and it outputs to a page of your choice. We had ours output to /thanks.html, and on tha…
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on “Ask HN: The "Launching Soon" Page”Submitted What you should know before you launch your product as a story · 14 points
HN discussionDid you see that article on microcopy yesterday. It mentioned that adding that you didn't need to have a paypal account to pay by paypal improved the conversion rate. Maybe worth look => http://bokardo.com/archives/writing-microcopy/
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on “Ask HN: Losing potential customers”Submitted Facebook's Brilliant but Evil design as a story · 14 points
HN discussionDepending on what you're looking for, you may want to get in touch with either Joshua Porter ( http://bokardo.com/services/ ), or Joe Baz ( http://www.abovethefolddesign.com/ ).
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on “UI/UX design firms in Boston”Submitted Redesigned: Facebook Logout Button as a story · 13 points
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