New Practice for Japanese, Too

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The new version of the practice page that’s in testing will now work for Japanese, as far as we know. Give it a try and let us know what’s great and what’s whack. Getting closer …

Usability Testing

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I’m sure that some people have had troubles navigating the site. You might even have had problems doing something that seemed like it should be a really simple task. In some rare cases, users might …

Downtime tonight

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Server’s undergoing maintenance tonight (Tuesday) at 8:00 PM EST. It’ll last for up to an hour. You might be able to get to a few pages, but for the most part Skritter will be down. …

Join us for our first open chat!

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Lately we’ve been itching to communicate with everyone using the site in a more synchronous and immediate way. We’ve been contemplating putting up a short-response poll but we thought it would be better to try …

Wow, thanks for the feedback!

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You’ve given a lot of feedback over the past three days about the new practice design! It is well appreciated. I’m not sure why, but it seems that Skritter users are uncommonly smart when it …

Test the Design

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Go to http://www.skritter.com/practice_new and check out the new practice page design. Let us know what you think! We’ve added a lot of stuff, most of which is ready. There are still a lot of bugs, …

Strike of the Toolbar Ninja

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Nick and Scott peer-pressured me into posting another time lapse video of my design work. This video just focuses on me laying out and exporting the new practice page toolbar buttons and consists of 1300 …

A Day in the Life of a Designer

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We’re still not quite done with the pinyin and definition redesign, but to keep everyone up to date before we release a public beta of our work, I thought I’d share a sort of humorous …

Pinyin and Definition Practice

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We haven’t been blogging too much lately because we’ve all three been working hard on the pinyin and definition practice, which promises to be mega sweet. We’ve spent the last week or so hammering out …