I was just thinking to myself how annoying the typography in this presentation is. Line height changes all over the place and is generally vertically cramped and annoying. The colors he chooses are chosen as if to be actively unpleasant (dark gray on blue?).
I'm not unsympathetic to everything in his presentation, but the broadside of self-importance coupled with the bad design decisions in the document is pretty lame.
>Line break his. Ew. And he's going to chastise other people design aesthetic?
I wish people thought more before making comments like this.
First, there's a slideshow service being used. Most aspects of the slideshow come from the service's engine, not from the guy who did the presentation.
Second, there's no "line-break", much less it is "his". Get a larger monitor/device or enlarge the browser window. If you're seeing one, it's a hyphenation added by the slideshow service's CSS for widths under some size. Definitely not there for everybody, and definitely not "his".
I try to stay out of Design-related posts on HN, especially ones that mention 'Flat' or 'Skeuomorphic'. Everyone suddenly turns into Dieter Rams mixed with Jonny Ive.
Although I don't love/hate this post either way, the comments in here for the most part are just awful, classic HN middlebrow dismissal at its best mixed with a spattering of ad hominem.
"Second, there's no "line-break", much less it is "his". Get a larger monitor/device or enlarge the browser window. If you're seeing one, it's a hyphenation added by the slideshow service's CSS for widths under some size. Definitely not there for everybody, and definitely not "his"."
Nice try. How much wider than 2560px would you suggest my browser window be?
And the service, such as it is, allows you to insert line breaks into text.
>Nice try. How much wider than 2560px would you suggest my browser window be?
Then get a browser that works, and do not assume that any artifact you see on your screen was put there by the original author.
>And the service, such as it is, allows you to insert line breaks into text.
Something which is beside the point. He did not insert any -- which you claimed he did. And it's not even there for us in other systems/browsers, period.
I'm not unsympathetic to everything in his presentation, but the broadside of self-importance coupled with the bad design decisions in the document is pretty lame.