Hacker News: cgallello

New comment by cgallello in "Asana raises $75M Series D round led by Generation Investment Management"

cgallello — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:34:41 +0000

I'm actually curious about this - do you know of articles that talk about this?

New comment by cgallello in "John Carmack's Keynote at Oculus 4 Live Stream [video]"

cgallello — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:43:39 +0000

Gloves aren't really a mainstream consumer product yet in a way that you'd expect in the future. When I'm typing in VR, I have to put my controllers down to the side of the keyboard. Easy to pick them back up though. It certainly would be nice to have the keyboard tracked so I don't have to slide my hands on the desk to look for it, but once I grab it, typing is fine.

New comment by cgallello in "Microsoft’s ‘mixed reality’ headsets are a bit of a mixed bag"

cgallello — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 18:57:56 +0000

Magic leap is creating glasses which overlay things onto the real world. These are VR headsets - your view is completely blocked.

New comment by cgallello in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

cgallello — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 18:07:52 +0000

In 2014, I posted a chrome extension called UX Check (http://uxcheck.co) as a Show HN. It didn't get any traction, but a month later, somebody reposted it and it hit the front page. I received an amazing amount of encouragement and support, with tons of great feedback. I rolled a lot of that feedback into an update a month or two later, and within 6 months, I had decided to leave my job to work full time on building a related product. Still working on that product and not ready to share it yet, but thank you to everyone!

New comment by cgallello in "Ask HN: Why is there a black bar added on top?"

cgallello — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:44:04 +0000

Accessibility tip - you're probably thinking of the "title" attribute. Agreed though.

Building and shipping UX Check

cgallello — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:49:51 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@cgallello/building-and-shipping-ux-check-ce652247f8ad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918647

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by cgallello in "UX Check"

cgallello — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:32:30 +0000

Yikes, that's bad. Do you use any accessibility settings like changing the font size on websites? Or are you on an older version of Chrome? Thanks for sharing.

New comment by cgallello in "UX Check"

cgallello — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:24:26 +0000

That was the most frustrating part of the project. I used the Open XML SDK for Javascript. There isn't a whole lot of documentation so it was a lot of guess and check.

http://openxmldeveloper.org/wiki/w/wiki/open-xml-sdk-for-jav...

New comment by cgallello in "UX Check"

cgallello — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:53:38 +0000

I used a Chrome extension API. One alternative I've heard is copying the DOM over into a separate canvas element, which you can save as an image. I haven't tried that yet though.

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs#method-captureV...

New comment by cgallello in "UX Check"

cgallello — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:21:54 +0000

Thanks! V2 will support custom heuristics so hopefully that will help. I'll consider adding more severity ratings as well.

New comment by cgallello in "UX Check"

cgallello — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:12:48 +0000

Thanks for the input. I'll look into this.

New comment by cgallello in "UX Check"

cgallello — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:11:50 +0000

Thanks!

1. There actually already is HTML output. My idea is that most people will likely copy/paste from HTML or a Word Doc to combine with their collaborators. From that perspective, PDF feels too 'finished'. And yeah, as someone else explained, I'm a PM on the Office Online team :)

2. This is great. I'm working on supporting different lists than just Nielsen's heuristics (including being able to create your own custom list). Unfortunately the one you linked to is quite long and might be quite lengthy to have in the sidebar. I'll think about that though.

New comment by cgallello in "UX Check"

cgallello — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:08:02 +0000

Good to know, thanks. Can you let me know the specific sites you tested it on? I'll take a look.

New comment by cgallello in "UX Check"

cgallello — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:06:35 +0000

Hi all - I created UX Check as a side project over the past few months and I'm glad that people are finding it to be helpful! There are some awesome suggestions in this thread and I'm already working on a v2, so feel free to keep the ideas coming.

New comment by cgallello in "Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?"

cgallello — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 06:33:30 +0000

I just finished with a side project. I knew going in that I would lose motivation for reasons left and right, even though it's the right project for me to work on. In order to keep up my motivation, I started "Side Projects Dinner" - I would make dinner for my friends every other week, and they would give me feedback on my project. It worked great, and we've had quite a lot of fun. And of course, my friends are also getting feedback on their own projects and thinking of new project ideas. Highly recommended!

New comment by cgallello in "Show HN: UX Check – easy heuristic evaluations (chrome ext)"

cgallello — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:07:04 +0000

Thanks for the input. I'll look into it!

New comment by cgallello in "Show HN: UX Check – easy heuristic evaluations (chrome ext)"

cgallello — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:47:57 +0000

Thanks! Any feedback welcome. And yes, I thought a bit about automation, but decided that it would likely be too hit and miss.

Show HN: UX Check – easy heuristic evaluations (chrome ext)

cgallello — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:22:09 +0000

Article URL: http://www.uxcheck.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8780427

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

New comment by cgallello in "Hello Santa"

cgallello — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:21:37 +0000

Honestly, yes. I thought that it was some happy ad campaign for Jib Jab and that you were actually giving out free Santa calls. I was just about to share this with so many people, then I got hit with the price. It's not even expensive, but it felt sneaky. And you captured my data. :(

New comment by cgallello in "Tell HN: Thank you for interface change"

cgallello — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:10:18 +0000

Hm. Why don't they just limit the # of characters that can be typed in the title text box?