February 2012
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Beautiful design on the Hiut Denim Size Guide →
There’s a lot to love about the story of Hiut Denim but the best part for me is the Size Guide. As you would expect, it helps you find the right size for your jeans. But the clincher for me is the sense of promise you have from seeing your jeans age and fade over time - three years, to be precise.
This is fantastic design for two reasons.
It makes it easier to decide to buy
To my mind,...
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Pause for thought
These days, if I were to write code it would be Java or even Haskell, and I would design the heck out of the system using UML, incorporating design patterns. Given half a chance, I’ll specify the operations formally, using OCL; and if you give me total freedom, I’ll specify it in Z (i.e. symbolic logic and set theory) and mathematically prove the design before coding.
Some of the software...
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