Erik Flowers
helloerik.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Erik Flowers, a designer, writes about UX, the Bootstrap 3 grid, and his months living on Soylent.
What HN saysHN commenters link his posts to explain the Bootstrap 3 grid and to argue that UX is not the same as UI.
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Most-shared posts
- 1UX is not UI3 people · 69 points · first shared 2012 · 46 comments on HN
- 2Bootstrap 3 Grid Introduction3 people · 44 points · first shared 2013 · 8 comments on HN
- 3Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)2 people · 503 points · first shared 2014 · 83 comments on HN
- 4Bump the Lamp: The Reason for Caring2 people · 27 points · first shared 2017 · 12 comments on HN
- 5Bootstrap 3 Less Workflow Tutorial2 people · 9 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 6My 5.5 Months on Soylent: The Joys of Not Cooking1 people · 133 points · first shared 2015 · 138 comments on HN
- 7No one said they wanted faster horses, they wanted less horseshit1 people · 26 points · first shared 2014 · 14 comments on HN
- 8The Ouija Toggle1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 9Know Your UX Hats1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
lpsz · 2014-07-16
FYI, Erik's great post that was here yesterday may be useful in dissecting containers vs. rows vs. cols. [1]
[1] http://www.helloerik.com/the-subtle-magic-behind-why-the-bootstrap-3-g…
damirkotoric · 2013-11-16
Hate it when people use UX as a cool new buzzword for UI. UX is not UI. Read:
http://www.helloerik.com/ux-is-not-ui
LinaLauneBaer · 2013-08-20
Edit: Oh. I have just found out by another HN post that I did not understand the new grid system... Here is a link that explains it very well: http://www.helloerik.com/bootstrap-3-grid-introduction
I have used the release candidates for my own personal website and it has been a pretty good experience. However I liked the result I got with Bootstrap 2 more.
To say it upfront: I am not a web developer. I am doing something completely different professionally. But maybe that makes my experience with Bootstrap kinda interesting… :)
I had the main problem with the mobile first grid system. It changed quite a lot when compared to Bootstrap 2. I made a product page for my new app and I wanted to show thumbnails. When using the built in thumbnail class wierd things happen when you resize the window: The actual size of the thumbnail changes and it gets distorted as a result.
Also the new grid system has the effect - at least in my case - that when resizing the window, the overall width of the columns that contain my text expand even though I made the window smaller. And then when I make the window even smaller the columns containing my text are becoming less wide. I think this is because of the fluid layout.
Personally I do not like fluid websites at all. Maybe I should not have used bootstrap then but I had some experience with it… What I liked about the non fluid grid system in Bootstrap 2 was that your website looked more or less the same on desktop and on mobile. On mobile…