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hkuo

420 karmaJoined August 25, 2009233 submissions

Design. UX. Code. Sunnyvale, CA

My skillset lies at the intersection of user experience, visual design, and code for any form of digital media. I began my career writing code, transitioned into design, and adopted user experience soon after. Throughout, I’ve continued to learn and play all three roles in parallel in a symbiotic relationship of creativity, functionality, and execution.

http://www.henrykuo.com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hgkuo

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/henrykuo1

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Recent Work:

Just the First Frame - http://www.justthefirstframe.com (Design/UX/Code)

iPhoneception - http://www.iphoneception.com (Design/UX/Code)

TABASCO Nation - https://apps.facebook.com/tabasconation (Design/UX)

Cisco Together - http://together.cisco.com (Design/UX)

Show HN: The best way to discover web comics

I came up with the idea for this site a couple weeks ago and spent a few days hacking together an MVP. The basic premise is that there are two opposing issues surrounding web comics: sharing & copyright infringement. Sites like Pinterest make it easy to share comics, but people share the comics in full with no requirement to link to the original source. Other sites like Reddit are sensitive to copyright, thus only showing text links, but it's a very non-visual way of browsing highly visual content.

So I had the idea that showing only the first frame of each comic serves the needs/wants of both creator and audience. The audience gets a fun visual way of browsing all of the latest web comics. But only getting the first frame, they must click through to the original source if they want to enjoy it in full. Thus, the creators receive 100% of the deserved traffic, which comes with their own ad impressions and anything else they are promoting on their websites.

To me, that's kind of a win-win. I'd love to hear any thoughts!

Link: http://www.justthefirstframe.com

6hkuo14y ago3

Show HN: iPhone prank web app in jQuery

Just wanted to get some feedback on this web app I recently made. I had the idea to recreate the iPhone interface in HTML, and when I got that working, I had the idea to turn it into a prank app, making it really easy to install on someone else's phone without the need of an Apple ID password. In any case, maybe you can save this for April Fools day coming up soon.

url: http://www.iphoneception.com

14hkuo14y ago3

hkuo

Recent submissions

Wacom Laptop Tray (opens in new tab)

A web comic discovery tool that solves the copyright infringement problem (opens in new tab)

Show HN: The best way to discover web comics

Show HN: iPhone prank web app in jQuery

Recent submissions

Wacom Laptop Tray (opens in new tab)

A web comic discovery tool that solves the copyright infringement problem (opens in new tab)

Show HN: The best way to discover web comics

Show HN: iPhone prank web app in jQuery