The Navigation Bar Is an Affordance, Stop Removing It
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The Navigation Bar Is an Affordance, Stop Removing It
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Re: The Navigation Bar Is an Affordance, Stop Removing It
#2"Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away"
I installed the new iTunes for my friends dad this weekend when I was helping him with his computer troubles. It took me way too long to find the file menu and it occurred to me in that moment that UI/UX designers have gone too far. In the pursuit of simplicity the marble nose has been chipped off the sculpture.
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#3Although it's my same intuitive feeling, Your background image is not more important than your navigation bar is a pretty strong assertion without citing studies or presenting some trends in user stories.
Re: The Navigation Bar Is an Affordance, Stop Removing It
#4"Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away" I installed the new iTunes for my friends dad this weekend when I was helping him with his computer troubles. It took me way too long to find the file menu and it occurred to me in that moment that UI/UX designers have gone too far. In the pursuit of simplicity the marble nose has been chipped off the sculpture…
"Let me push Alt just in case a secret UI shows up" is up there with XKCD's famous "change the screen resolution" troubleshooting strip [1]. It should not be a thing. But here we are.
And unfortunately, while the "change the screen resolution" is becoming less common, burying features in undiscoverable places is getting worse and worse.
What I hate the most about this is that (unlike aforementioned off-screen dialog bugs) designers/developers are doing it on purpose. Please stop! Other people have to use your software!
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#5already it's been quite some times that I load a web page, and it appears to be completely blank as the background image was not loaded; Ok, the page may be needing js, so I will enable and reload the page, only to find that the page is still blank .. and then I realize that the content was just there, below all that empty space.
that's why I love "Reader View"
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#6This is a pretty crass statement to make. If the focus is full-on navigability, I agree that contrast in the navigation bar is paramount. Yet, for many sites with simplified features, the emotional experience trumps the direct navigability of the site itself.
This is especially true for sites like Airbnb (as in the example) where in addition to emotional response, there is an immediate focus on activating users. The focus shifts from full navigability (logging in, become a host, etc) to searching for a listing.
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#7Although it's my same intuitive feeling, Your background image is not more important than your navigation bar is a pretty strong assertion without citing studies or presenting some trends in user stories.
Really? You really need studies and trends to decide if the bleedin' obvious is necessary? If your users can't use it, it doesn't matter how pretty it is.
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#8This is a pretty crass statement to make. If the focus is full-on navigability, I agree that contrast in the navigation bar is paramount. Yet, for many sites with simplified features, the emotional experience trumps the direct navigability of the site itself. This is especially true for sites like Airbnb (as in the example) where in addition to emotional response, there is an immediate focus on activating users. The…
"...the emotional experience trumps the direct navigability of the site itself"
The above statement is everything that is wrong with modern visual styling of software. After everything is said and done, software is a tool which people use to accomplish a goal. I would argue that anything that causes friction with that is Bad Design.
As much as some visual/interaction designers may think that "experience is everything", they ignore that they are insisting on manufacturing and enforcing their opinion of what the users experience should be and forget that the user accomplishing their goal is the only experience that matters.
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#9It's funny how UX collectively misses arguably the most important principle - you design for a particular purpose. If the purpose of a site is to sell users some shit, no surprise the site will be dumbed down. Most of the sites are written this way. The sad thing is, patterns developed for those are then applied to things that should be tools. E.g. Google apps redesigns, which lose features and get more annoying to use every iteration.
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#10This is a pretty crass statement to make. If the focus is full-on navigability, I agree that contrast in the navigation bar is paramount. Yet, for many sites with simplified features, the emotional experience trumps the direct navigability of the site itself. This is especially true for sites like Airbnb (as in the example) where in addition to emotional response, there is an immediate focus on activating users. The…
When did sites become "emotional experiences"? I'm sorry I want to say something more constructive but I'm giggling too much at the absurdity of this statement.