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Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by samkellett »

pavlov wrote: post #18
hacker_9 wrote: post #8

To be honest UI dev tools just plain suck, making everything move more slowly that it needs to. If I'm on the web it's the HTML + CSS clusterfuck, If I'm in C# I'm writing color converters for WPF, if it's Java I have to use the outdated looking Swing, if it's C++ it's QT which I need to doll out cash for. Additionally every smart phone OS has it's own groundbreaking GUI layout concepts and ideas too. Then you get th…

Sun NeWS should have been that GUI standard, thirty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS There was a simplicity and purity in its approach to front-end interactivity and rendering that completely eludes the HTML+CSS+JS stack we're now stuck with. As the Wikipedia article states... "NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently: used PostScript code instead of JavaSc…

you either die a hero or...

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by beaconstudios »

TuringTest wrote: post #148
beaconstudios wrote: post #128

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I'm working on something much more elegant that takes designers above the focus of "HTML+CSS code" to an abstraction that makes sense. Similar to webflow, but allows you to continue to build out your app without having to drop down into text editing. A solution may be closer than you think ;)

Also interested. Do you have anything online to explain your base ideas?

hey! I actually don't, but was planning to write up a blog post to explain the core concept behind Basis (the working project title). If you'd like, I can send you some info if you drop me an email :)

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by pjmlp »

fnord123 wrote: post #145
pjmlp wrote: post #101

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Not all platforms allow for dynamic linking.

Out of interest, which platforms that Qt targets, cannot have dynamic linking?

Embedded devices, car infotainment systems, iOS (only dynamic frameworks from Apple are allowed).

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by BaronSamedi »

Arizhel wrote: post #79
cassowary wrote: post #25

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I don't mind the hamburger menu because at least there's a consistent UI that tells me where I can click to find stuff. Otherwise agree, undiscoverable hidden UIs must die, and so must these flat UIs (which are equivalent to undiscoverable ones). Underlined blue words are good too. Worst ui trend ever. I eagerly await a return to the 1980s. Which is not nostalgia, because I didn't use computers then — I'm too young a…

The 80s had their high points for sure, but computer interfaces really aren't one of them unless you like green-screen mainframe interfaces. IMHO, the peak for UIs that are easily usable by regular people with minimal training was back in the mid-to-late-00s. It was before this idiotic flat-UI fad, when UIs had a colorful 3D look to them so they were actually attractive, and also functional (since they were also very…

Are you sure about this? Have you seen what the Xerox Star could do in 1981 (http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html)? Or how about Symbolics Genera? Both of these systems had UI functionality in some ways more advanced than what we have today.

They tried to build smart workstations, where today we have essentially "dumb" operating systems and rely on applications to make them useful. The price we pay for this choice is the poor integration across applications. Web applications are even worse: zero integration across applications coupled with huge security problems.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by on_and_off »

flukus wrote: post #54
swsieber wrote: post #39

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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.

is there any real use-case for popunder ?

As for popup, Chrome on Android blocks them by default for me (maybe I touched a setting a long time ago).

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by skynode »

deevolution wrote: post #115
whytaka wrote: post #64

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I have spent 10000+ hours doing design and I've got to say that my leap into code (especially backend) has been incredibly eye-opening. I've realized how so much of design is ego-driven, how design studios design for design awards, and what a crime it is that so many technical minds are steered to work on problems more related to fashion than accessibility or productivity. Designers should definitely code. Too much o…

Ive spent maybe 1000 hours designing and now 1000 hours coding and i can say actually developing something certainly feels alot more wholesome than designing the layout of an interface.

I constantly have to export my work in webflow for further development on Node, React Webpack, etc. Nothing like fine grained control over the digital elements! :-)

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by overcast »

bbcbasic wrote: post #150
avodonosov wrote: post #4

Have there been anything new in UX since 1970s?

Swipes, pinches, shakes, 3D effects. One phone UX thing I hate for example. Phone makes random noises at night. Now try to pinpoint the app or setting or setting within an app that causes that.

Swiping, and pinching was pretty game changing. Shaking and 3D effects are just useless novelties.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by taude »

on_and_off wrote: post #146
hacker_9 wrote: post #8

To be honest UI dev tools just plain suck, making everything move more slowly that it needs to. If I'm on the web it's the HTML + CSS clusterfuck, If I'm in C# I'm writing color converters for WPF, if it's Java I have to use the outdated looking Swing, if it's C++ it's QT which I need to doll out cash for. Additionally every smart phone OS has it's own groundbreaking GUI layout concepts and ideas too. Then you get th…

Weird, I feel that UI tools are evolving very fast on Android. ConstraintLayout is pretty much AutoLayout without the bad parts, Databinding makes declarative style UI easy to write. It is not perfect by any means, but it is definitely improving quite steadily.

But these ideas of declarative frameworks supporting databinding are old, and have been implemented many times in many heterogeneous frameworks and platforms over the past two decades (probably longer, but I don't have context).

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by taude »

efdee wrote: post #143
fludlight wrote: post #90

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Wait, wait, I've been in an OSX/AdBlock/uBlock bubble since Windows 7, are you saying that the latest mass consumer version of Windows has advertisements built in like network television?

I've heard people talk about them, but I've never seen it on any of the 4 Windows 10 machines running under my roof. Apart from the (already plenty annoying) notification about a new version of Office.

I haven't seen any either. I makes me wonder if people are using pirated versions of Windows and Microsoft has figured out a way to know this reliably and target them with ads.

I do have my "developer tools extensions" enabled on my Windows 10 machine, which I wonder if it affects being targeted by ads.

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