Jan Schneider
vanschneider.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Jan Schneider, a designer who writes about product design, personal websites, design trends and his failed startup.
What HN saysHN links his site as design inspiration and for his art deco trend piece, with one commenter noting a redesign copied his look.
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What HN people wrote when they linked it
sixQuarks · 2015-12-04
I saw this posted on Designer News the other day. At first, I was impressed, but then somebody in the comments pointed out your inspiration: http://www.vanschneider.com
emehrkay · 2012-12-05
I use my nexus and the constant grey puts me off. Very little contrast, very little distinction between what is UI and what is scaffolding. If you're going to do a flat design, the elements have to separate themselves from one another -- things have to be distinct. This is a great example of a flat email interface with basically the same layout as Google's client: http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/ everything being #cecece and shifted one direction or the other isn't.
sandGorgon · 2020-07-05
here's a very interesting take here - about art deco being the design for the next few years https://vanschneider.com/art-deco-will-be-the-visual-language-of-2021
However, I also believe that the Bauhaus way of using flat designs with interesting shapes and motion will be an interesting path forward
throwaway_pdp09 · 2020-05-21
Aside: I turn off JS and never allow it on outside a VM (which gets wiped back to a clean state on shutdown).
It's definitely not the same thing because a lot of documents simply do not render (here's one I was looking at not 2 minutes ago, at least it has text, but no pics https://vanschneider.com/the-kawaiization-of-product-design A Number of sites will render absolutely nothing at all, text or otherwise eg https://www.washingtonpost.com).
Nope, he's got a good suggestion IMO.
daleco · 2019-02-08
I'm on the same boat, here are some UX Designers portfolios that I found interesting and bookmarked. Even if it's a different profession, you may find inspiration there:
http://jaredgranger.com/
https://danielkorpai.com/#work
https://katiemacoy.com
https://www.vanschneider.com
https://heyshawn.co
open-source-ux · 2019-02-04
I also don't believe it. In fact, I'd feel duped if I sign up with my email only to find out the product doesn't exist and the owner was simply soliciting interest. It's fine if you say upfront the product doesn't exist and offer users the option to register interest. It's not fine if you hide the fact the product doesn't exist. It's disappointing that so many programmers think this is ok.
Here's an example of someone who created a UI concept that suddenly went viral, but which ultimately never got built. There was never any deception - everyone knew it was a concept piece but many expressed an interest seeing it built:
https://www.vanschneider.com/story-dotmail
jameswyse · 2012-07-25
For anyone who is confused, this is the implementation of a concept which was posted 2 weeks ago.
It's looking really good, can't wait to try it!
Link to concept post: http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/
And original HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4223869