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Tobias van Schneider
Personal blog · vanschneider.comdesignwriting
Tobias van Schneider writes House of van Schneider, a personal blog at vanschneider.com about design and writing. Since 2012, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Re-Designing the classic email client”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
I create, therefore I am. I'm Tobias van Schneider a designer born in Germany, raised in Austria & currently living and working in New York City.
Most-linked posts?
- Re-Designing the classic email client3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-10
- Content or Design First?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-07
- The Startup That Never Started: Lessons from .Mail3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-01-16
- The Kawaiization of Product Design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-20
- The difference between creative and uncreative people2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-21
- Skeuomorphism Is Making a Comeback?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-13
What Hacker News says?
I'm on the same boat, here are some UX Designers portfolios that I found interesting and bookmarked. Even if it's a different profession, you may find inspiration there: http://jaredgranger.com/ https://danielkorpai.com/#work https://katiemacoy.com https://www.vanschneider.com https://heyshawn.co
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on “Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?”Submitted Re-Designing the classic email client as a story · 284 points
HN discussionhere's a very interesting take here - about art deco being the design for the next few years https://vanschneider.com/art-deco-will-be-the-visual-languag... However, I also believe that the Bauhaus way of using flat designs with interesting shapes and motion will be an interesting path forward
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on “The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design”Submitted A Love Letter to Personal Websites as a story · 204 points
HN discussionFor anyone who is confused, this is the implementation of a concept which was posted 2 weeks ago. It's looking really good, can't wait to try it! Link to concept post: http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/ And original HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4223869
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on “.mail app”Submitted The Kawaiization of Product Design as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI use my nexus and the constant grey puts me off. Very little contrast, very little distinction between what is UI and what is scaffolding. If you're going to do a flat design, the elements have to separate themselves from one another -- things have to be distinct. This is a great example of a flat email interface with basically the same layout as Google's client: http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/ everything be…
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on “One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks ”Submitted Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers as a story · 117 points
HN discussionAside: I turn off JS and never allow it on outside a VM (which gets wiped back to a clean state on shutdown). It's definitely not the same thing because a lot of documents simply do not render (here's one I was looking at not 2 minutes ago, at least it has text, but no pics https://vanschneider.com/the-kawaiization-of-product-design A Number of sites will render absolutely nothing at all, text or otherwise eg https:…
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on “In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websocket port scanning”Submitted Downsides of Freelancing as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI also don't believe it. In fact, I'd feel duped if I sign up with my email only to find out the product doesn't exist and the owner was simply soliciting interest. It's fine if you say upfront the product doesn't exist and offer users the option to register interest. It's not fine if you hide the fact the product doesn't exist. It's disappointing that so many programmers think this is ok. Here's an example of someo…
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on “Ask HN: Where am I going wrong?”Submitted No Alcohol, No Coffee for 27 Months (2016) as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI saw this posted on Designer News the other day. At first, I was impressed, but then somebody in the comments pointed out your inspiration: http://www.vanschneider.com
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on “Show HN: UX/UI Designer New Website”Submitted The problem with free (2019) as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted When our persona becomes our prison as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted UX Copy Sells as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are we all converging into the same online persona? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Slow Creep of Mediocrity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Behind the Scenes of the Westworld UI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I will never ask you to do anything I wouldn’t do myself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The False Religion of Scalability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The old artist couldn't sell their work. The new artist sells their soul as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skeuomorphism Is Making a Comeback as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No More Boring Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skeuomorphism Is Making a Comeback? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Art deco will be the visual language of 2021 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A love letter to my website as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overdeliver as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The startup that never started: lessons from .Mail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Startup That Never Started: Lessons from .Mail as a story · 2 points
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