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Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct

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Re: Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct

#3
Ive done all 3 series. To me, some of them are quite blatant, especially in the easy series. Some of them are irrelevant to me, especially in hard. In a few cases, I actually prefer the bad design.

My main takeaway is that design has quickly diminishing returns. Which is probably not what the authors wanted.

Re: Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct

#5
There are some of the "broken" designs (like corner radius or capitalization) that amount to design choices and not necessarily constitute a good or bad design by themselves. Also, most of the examples seem to be taken from Skype. And why should we log in at the end, what do I get if I login?

Re: Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct

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That's a bit biased. "Easy 2/18" insists that "Invite friends..." is the default button and should be blue, while "Skip" button should be white which makes look like it's not a button at all, so a user does not realize that he can skip the useless spamming "Invite" step. I think it's a bad design.

Re: Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct

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post #6

That's a bit biased. "Easy 2/18" insists that "Invite friends..." is the default button and should be blue, while "Skip" button should be white which makes look like it's not a button at all, so a user does not realize that he can skip the useless spamming "Invite" step. I think it's a bad design.

Evil design is bad design.

Re: Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct

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post #6

That's a bit biased. "Easy 2/18" insists that "Invite friends..." is the default button and should be blue, while "Skip" button should be white which makes look like it's not a button at all, so a user does not realize that he can skip the useless spamming "Invite" step. I think it's a bad design.

Yeah, that one was blatantly biased. It is a dark pattern trying to dissuade user from clicking that button - which honestly is just a bad design.

Some of them are genuenly good - the alignment ones for example, but others are open to interpretation where you have to pick the most 'in' option.

Re: Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct

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I might be mistaken about this, but a lot of the ones where it says that the letter kerning is wrong, looks to me like it’s the letter spacing that is wrong.

Kerning being a specific adjustment between two letters and letter spacing being the general distance between the letters.

Nevertheless a fun little quiz, but I think it needs some improvement to not be so full of essentially arbitrary design decisions. Also, to not promote dark patterns.

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