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kingkongjaffa
Those gifs are awful and distracting.

Awful UX.

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sachleen
Don't really see a point in all the gifs. Would be much easier to see the difference if you just showed two separate images of good/bad examples.
pavel_lishin
Took me at least three loops to even realize what the gifs were illustrating.
ggm
Good guidance badly executed. Click to reveal with no sideways scroll might have been better
allover
> Good guidance badly executed.

Could you not think of a nicer way to word this, given that you consider the guidance 'good', and presumably understand a lot of work went into it?

ggm
The words about how to design icons are very good. But the execution of how to show them wasn't nearly as good. I think it had an overall consistency, but unfortunately it worked against the intent of the 1->2 reveal because it was hard to get a stable view of the icon images before/after.

Hows that?

allover
> Hows that?

There's a balance and you missed it both times

et2o
The persistent webpage bar takes up 1/3rd of my screen on landscape. Highly irritatng
allover
That's the fault of Medium, not the author. Are you going to post this comment on every Medium post?
et2o
No it isn't. It's a feature of what Muz.li added and isn't as bad on other medium articles.
na85
Questionable UX and site design choices by the author aside, I found the advice for graphic design of flat icons to be spot-on.

Re-packaged into a gist or some other less-annoying format sans-gifs, and this would be a stellar resource.

jensvdh
Those GIFS are highly annoying and not useful at all.