I wonder what devices will come in the next 5 years that require significantly new developments in UX.
Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
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Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if it's Java I have to use the outdated looking Swing Java has JavaFX now
Swing is themeable, as has always been. With some minimal effort, it's possible to do a nice looking GUI with fonts that not look like vomit, etc. If Sun and Oracle had spent more than 5 minutes on packaging applications - why not in jxe-files for executable jars, as a simple start to avoid torturing your users - and using nice fonts - and why not a discrete and non-whiny non-bundlig autoupdating jre - they could act…
The biggest problem was always that everyone hated the native win32 theme, Even MS didn't use it in big products like office.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#53I see a couple challenges with the future of UX design. One being that everyone has an opinion as to how something should work. Unless someone has years of widely-recognized, valid experience/expertise in design, who's to say if one person's instincts are better than another's? The other issue I see is process taking over creativity. Soundcloud's iconic design was driven largely by the intuition of the designers and…
Even worse, what if someone has years of widely recognized, valid experience and is also wrong? If that seems preposterous, I'd point to things like Helicobacter pylori causing ulcers. Decades of dogmatic thinking.
> Even worse, what if someone has years of widely recognized, valid experience and is also wrong?
A more practical one might be the skeuomorphic phase apple went through.
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#54Great topic, but the article doesn't answer its own question. Predictions: - Microsoft will move the start menu to a different corner of the screen again. - Some phones will have a dedicated hardware "dismiss popup" button. - Neon colors with contrasting fringes will be used for visibility on AR displays. - Alexa will start initiating conversations. - Hyperreality.[1] [1] https://vimeo.com/166807261
Android already has a hardware back button (sometimes)... somebody should rog that up to get rid of pop ups in browsers.
I think it's time we whitelist sites that can create popups and popunders. Things like the firefox popup blocker flat out do not work anymore.
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#55The problem I see with UX today is that there is a split. One the one hand are the people who just want to make good products people love to use. On the other hand are the corps who want to use this as a tool to direct people in a way that they spent more money for nothing gained.
> One the one hand are the people who just want to make good products people love to use.
I don't want to "love to use" any product, the product is just a means to an end and just needs to let me do what I need to do and stay out of my way otherwise.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'd point to things like Helicobacter pylori causing ulcers. Decades of dogmatic thinking. This is tangential, but huh? H. Pylori was never to my knowledge believed to be the only cause of gastric ulcers. It is definitely correlated and eradication resolves the disease for some patients. Eradication also reduces stomach cancer risk by about half.
It was the other way around. The dogma was that it was caused by excess acid and the revelation was that the bacteria were a major part of it. I was pointing to the story in general.
Ok. I see what you mean now. Thanks.
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You really underestimate the amount of time it takes to practice and do adequate UX design; unless you spend 10,000 hours doing design, you are going to suck at it, and most of the jack of all trades designers devs I met have really been mediocre at both. "Designers should code" is as fallacious as "accountants should be lawyers". Specialization has been the direction of human civilization ever since the neolithic re…
Designers must understand the media they work in. Design involves tradeoffs and accommodations for practical limits. A designer who doesn't understand the capabilities of the systems they design for is destined to produce bad designs. You can't understand the limits of CSS unless you can work with it. Imagine if Apple hardware designers depended on their manufacturers to tell them what's achievable with aluminum and…
Yes. But this is far far far away from "designers must code." Except for a few unicorns, this just leads to people who are mediocre at both design and code. A designer who is bogged down in code will also produce bad designs, especially when they let their inability to think of how something will be coded (because they aren't advanced coders) limit them!
Designers have their own tool chain to prototype UIs and user interactions, but these are not UI devtools.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#58The problem I see with UX today is that there is a split. One the one hand are the people who just want to make good products people love to use. On the other hand are the corps who want to use this as a tool to direct people in a way that they spent more money for nothing gained.
> One the one hand are the people who just want to make good products people love to use. I don't want to "love to use" any product, the product is just a means to an end and just needs to let me do what I need to do and stay out of my way otherwise.
Exactly.
A hammer is just a tool so I can put a frame of my family on the wall.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#59If I could express a desire rather than a prediction, it's that "undiscoverable" UIs die. I hate having to swipe and tap and generally mess with the screen in the hope of triggering some secret feature. I don't know when it became trendy to get rid of UI chrome but I really wish it would come back. (I wouldn't mind if the hamburger menu died either.)
While we're at it, can we kill the fixed headers that waste 10-20% of my screen space on every page? I already know what website I'm on, thanks.
Add to that the "EU cookies" notice.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do UI dev tools have to do with UX design?
Designs have to be implemented in something. Currently UX designers are often like chefs who work by drawing pictures of food and writing down conceptual recipes. When they've created a beautiful menu this way, they're surprised to find out that their recipes can't actually be made using the cooking equipment available, and some of the ingredients don't even exist. You're not going to run a Michelin-rated restaurant…
Do you think it's really worth it to have a menu that's so "beautiful" it's difficult to implement without more tooling?
Does it enhance accessibility? Elucidate the IA? Or is it just more whiz-bang?