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I would argue that iOS users also don't know that they can double tap the iphone home button twice to pull up the ability to kill an app without someone telling them that functionality exist or they accidentally find out. This widget concept would be no different.
This is exactly how i feel right now. I am, by unfortunate circumstances, the only designer in one of the offices of an enterprise company being ran by dev-minded people. I know my weaknesses and strengths, but I need a design-influenced team and company for me to better than what I'm outputting right now.
If I were to look for a job now with a portfolio of the products I've worked on at the company over the last year, it would definitely be an uphill battle.
You're assuming everyone has a Yahoo Account, and they like using Flickr
"clean design" has been around since the 20th century. It just went away, but came back, and it will go away again and will most likely come back again. So yes, design is in trends, just like any other field has trends, but "clean design" has pretty good odds to come back again. 90s grunge design.....not so likely.
the site is down. Anyone got a mirror?
The article writer contradicts him/herself when they emphasis "simplifying" infographics (with the animated gif example), but their favorite infographic at the moment is the Microsoft/Nokia example they showed. That infographic contains a pie chart.
Pie charts are hard to read and to compare size. As you can see in that example, for you (the user) to gather the information, you need to see the percentile, then also look at the legend outside the pie chart. A bar graph would've conveyed the information more efficiently.
I agree with this article, but who is to say the goal of Dribbble isn't to just showcase visual design? To join Dribbble, you must get an invite from a Dribbble user. Dribbble users invite people who have similar taste and design state-of-mind as they do. So in the end you get a gated community of designers who think and work alike.
The problem with this I see is that non-design people who wants to hire designers think that Dribbble is the "go to" standard of design, without thinking of usability problems their product[s] have that needs solving.
consider it a "dark pattern" to trick users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6301378