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Apps, Stop Infantilizing Your Users
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#12This stuff only occasionally jumps out at me as being "too much" although overall I dislike the CalArts style. I remember installing Docker.app on my Mac and the installer said they're "whale-y" happy to meet me (along with a cute whale drawing), which caused a reflexive eye roll from me. I just wanted to get Docker on my machine.
I suspect the problem is that the app does need some kind of visual style, but the biz and engineer people aren't artists, so they have to hire an artist, and the art world is overrun by the "CalArts" style garbage.
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#13Actually... I like this stuff. Moreover, why does it bother people? It's just some cute drawings. If you don't like it that's reasonable but to actually get upset over it is just weird to me. This has got to be some weird cultural thing. I've never been myself, but from what I've heard, Japan doesn't seem to mind cutesy drawings everywhere. If they just mean the flat design itself, I understand even less what the pro…
I am on with the cultural thing.
Maybe some fellow Indians can comment on it, every time I get to do trainings created by an Indian company, they are full of such cutesy drawings and Flash like animations.
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#14the rant doesn't establish how the presence of an art style results in the "infantilization" of users.
It gives examples of drawings that immediately call to mind toddlers' picture books, with simple bright colors and exaggerated facial features.
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#15Actually... I like this stuff. Moreover, why does it bother people? It's just some cute drawings. If you don't like it that's reasonable but to actually get upset over it is just weird to me. This has got to be some weird cultural thing. I've never been myself, but from what I've heard, Japan doesn't seem to mind cutesy drawings everywhere. If they just mean the flat design itself, I understand even less what the pro…
I'm an adult, that's why I've worn a suit since high school.
I am also an adult. I go to work, I pay taxes. Exactly what about being an adult means you must get upset about cartoons?
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#16the rant doesn't establish how the presence of an art style results in the "infantilization" of users.
Anecdotally, the very first illustration evokes, to me, the feeling of being talked down to. It's almost ugly in its extreme childishness.
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#17I do have a complaint about it, but not because of the specific art style, but rather because they add so much unnecessary pictures that it wastes disk space. If they are animated, it wastes processing time too.
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#18Meh, I thought this was about apps that dumb down functionality and suffer from overly-clever syndrome. Can we have a thread about that instead? :)
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#19Not a big fan of this style, but it's either cute illustrations or stock photography that looks like stock photography. With illustrations you can at least keep the look and feel of everything consistent.
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#20Not a big fan of this style, but it's either cute illustrations or stock photography that looks like stock photography. With illustrations you can at least keep the look and feel of everything consistent.
For a lot of designers and UXers, adding delight/magic to an app means adding cutesy illustrations and wacky animations. Delight for me is when an app does more with less input from me.