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Show HN: Interface Lovers – Interviews with designers

by viiralvx on 5/4/17, 12:08 PM with 41 comments

• by tsunamifury on 5/4/17, 2:53 PM

  Whats so thoroughly disappoints me about the design community is that so few of them are actual disruptors. Browsing through these interviews, the questions are almost entirely about their taste --a very superficial understanding of design. And unsurprisingly, their tastes almost always have the minimal Japanese aesthetic, and a lot of talk about 'simplicity'.

  As part of my job I have the pleasure of occasionally working with some of the more recognized product designers in the world, and very few of them are anything other than "basic" in their public taste profile. The majority of their concentration is on market psychology, shifting trends in technology enabling new designs to be possible, and the really hard problems of global design. They tend to have out there hobbies focused around building things and their work process is not a endless flow of whitespace and pretty objects.

  All this to say -- I am disappointed that the design community has gotten sucked into designing itself more than designing for others -- a process I know is a lot messier than this website shows.

• by whytaka on 5/4/17, 4:17 PM

  Designers today laud UX but make the most inaccessible, superflous, gimmicky, unreadable, and yet some how still bland, designs. Minimalism without any of the benefits. Overly garnished designs without any real creativity. Design problems of the flat screen are mostly solved; at this point, they are just creating work for themselves. I can't blame them for that.

• by intoverflow2 on 5/4/17, 5:06 PM

  Same old bunch of faces talking about the same old bunch of stuff.

  Forever underwhelmed with design writing in the digital space.

• by kevinmannix on 5/4/17, 2:32 PM

  Pretty cool! As a developer who's currently quite lacking in design capabilities, it's nice to hear about the more product-focused side of things. Will definitely be following this site & the interviewees on Twitter.

• by shady-lady on 5/5/17, 12:33 PM

  I ended clicking through to Stripes homepage(as it was mentioned in an interview under 'What pieces of work are you most proud of?').

  I'm not a fan of partial images being shown at default browser zoom - seems too inexact compared to rest of Stripe site. Had to zoom out to 80% to have all device images shown.

  http://imgur.com/a/pqFVa

  album showing

  1) stripe homepage at browser zoom 100% (http://imgur.com/IhhWWLf)

  2) stripe homepage at browser zoom 80% (http://imgur.com/Jq6a8fI)

  3) all other content on page seems centered as normal. (http://imgur.com/KIZSUuL)

  [Not sure if there's a handier way/program to include some kind of measurement ruler on images.]

• by artur_makly on 5/4/17, 7:22 PM

  Product Designer here. Agreed that more designers should make full hearted attempts at innovating in Product vs dressings.

  We are out there though few.

  My last major attempt [1] was to disrupt the desogn process itself, especially in the consumption of lifestyle products.

  [1] http://JuicyCanvas.com

• by searchfaster on 5/4/17, 5:02 PM

  As a developer who just spent the last night building a visualization tool analyzing reddit data, totally appreciate the value of a good designer.

  It is very hard to balance 'simplicity', 'usability' and 'features'.

  I had to cut short many features and options because the interface was getting too complex.

• by dorianm on 5/4/17, 3:41 PM

  Would be nice to polish the spacings http://imgur.com/a/So2Uh

• by fiatjaf on 5/5/17, 12:08 AM

  So all designers use a Mac and an iPhone?