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Yelp's ratings, reviews, recommendations, and tips aren't very good for food, bars, and things to do. I've always found Foursquare's to be much higher quality.

The Xbox 360 was also the first game console to have a Netflix app. I think MS has released stats stating that over half the time spent on the 360 is streaming video, which is most likely Netflix usage.

I'd say this is a well thought out analysis, especially compared to other articles that make it to the front-page.

"Snapchat is Intrinsically Worthless" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6671371

Sim Tower on iPad

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yoot-tower/id379197311?mt=8

And there, my friends, is the spin: "Let me poorly reduce someone's well reasoned statement into a biased sentence."

I hear sentiments like this a lot, but I don't agree. Many companies have training on how to use Google Calendar/Drive properly. That doesn't mean these products are too complicated.

I'd imagine it is the Product Design program at Stanford.

I imagine Bing has greater marketshare/engagement when compared to Google Search than Google+ does when compared to FB.

Seems like a step back from the old design? Not a great browsing experience and for company pages, there is not very much information above the fold anymore.

The network you'll make at top-tier schools is IMO a lot more important than anything else.

Surface RT is now just Surface.

They're already piloting this idea.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/question/488

Okay, is there any reason to think the Twitter account is controlled by someone with the intention or ability to carry out an attack?

How does the person who controls their Twitter account decide that?

Isn't he a multimillionaire just on paper?

What would happen if we valued forums the way we value tech sites? What would SomethingAwful's valuation be in today's tech world when it had the engagement and content creation power it held in the early 2000s ?

To me, Quora is really nothing more than a glorified forum.

Definitely agree. Some of the stuff is just terribly confusing and very visually dense.

And you're qualified to say this because?

Oh! The censorship I meant was more-so in regards to banning Gawker links when they outted violentacruz. I think the child pornography subreddits being banned was fine.

Yeah, those people in the 50s who fought against desegregation just had a different personal opinion on what was okay. Nothing wrong with that!

Should we have been tolerant of racist people in the 50s and 60s? Was being in favor of segregation a viewpoint people should have respected?

Reddit has never been above the fray. Look into their terrible record of admins censoring content and the violentacrez fiasco.

Employees who are members of the LGBT community or allies can now feel comfortable working at Mozilla. I think that is a positive effect.

So you are aware that Apple also calls apps that run on both iPhone and iPad as Universal apps?

From my understanding and use of XAML and HTML/JS, the UI performance you get on XAML apps is still better than whats achievable on HTML/JS apps.

The users can dictate the ordering of apps and folders on the Metro Start Screen. Not only that, users can incorporate spatial organization to make apps even easier to scan and find quickly. You could argue that this is a better design. However, all designs have pros and cons and are not necessarily best for all use cases.

As to your second point, I think the question is how do you improve your UI without breaking previous mental models/behavior?

Tiles can be resized to be small, medium, large, and x-large sizes.

It's a good question because there are a handful of variables at play. Size of the window, density of objects, the layout of objects, the ordering of objects, etc.

So your problem isn't with the small-start screen vs big screen, but with the density of information? With the Metro Start Screen you can customize apps, folders, and their sizes to your liking, or just type what application you want and hit enter to launch it.

Actually it's a terribly efficient design. The usability studies that involved eye-tracking showed that when the start menu is open, users gaze is purely focused on the start menu, not other objects on the desktop. If this is the case, then why not use the whole screen as your start menu? Now you can show many more apps, search results, and allow users to spatially group apps and folders to their liking.

The backlash came from the fact that it was a change from 20+ years of ingrained behavior, not that it was an inherently poor design. However, you could argue breaking the previous mental model of users will definitely create issues and therefore is a bad design.

As someone who has worked at Microsoft, I can tell you they spend thousands of hours on usability studies and the managers watch. Also there are countless readouts and documents summarizing the findings.

Microsoft spends an incredible amount of resources on usability studies.