Humane by Design
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Humane by Design
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#2Would a flat page listing the key tenets with correct headers be so painful to create?
Why do I have to click into each of these headers? Something something the presumption to reducing friction something something thoughtful interaction.
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#4This site is one of the best dark theme site designs I have seen. Good job.
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#5Would a flat page listing the key tenets with correct headers be so painful to create? Why do I have to click into each of these headers? Something something the presumption to reducing friction something something thoughtful interaction.
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#6They talk about inclusive design and then make it impossible to tell which element has keyboard focus.
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#7Love the theme and principles listed but navigation is a bit cumbersome and visual-heavy. Nonetheless, the effort is appreciated!
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#8>Humane by Design is a resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.
Ironically the website itself is not easy to navigate on mobile.
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#9This site is one of the best dark theme site designs I have seen. Good job.
This is ridiculous. Why should every site have to design their own light and/or dark themes? When you visited the site you thought it had a great theme; I on the other hand ended up leaving after 5 seconds because light text on black or near-black backgrounds makes my eyes hurt. This uses gray text which makes it a bit easier than some other dark sites, but gray on black causes issues for a number of other people. A bunch of people think it looks great, a bunch of other people find it unremarkable, and a bunch of other people are actively harmed by the theme.
Why can't the User Agent allow the user to set themes, with some sensible defaults provided? There should be a background color, foreground (text) color, a few accent colors, etc. Custom themes should only be used by applications which have really different requirements; background/foreground/accents/good-bad-error colors should be enough for 95% of them and the other 4% can interpolate to get more colors. This also helps people with special needs such as colorblindness (almost 10% of men) and poor eyesight.
For example, on KDE I can set a system-wide color scheme applied to Qt (and also attempted to apply to GTK) applications. It comes with a pretty good default light and dark theme, but the user can get any custom theme they want or make their own. It seems to work just fine here, with a wide variety of applications looking great even with nonstandard themes.
Of course HTML/CSS has been evolving for many decades, but there needs to be a reset at some point where we switch from legacy technology designed to make reading documents to a new system that is useful for making web applications and interactive documents.
One thing I've done on my browser is to disable custom fonts. Font CSS is ignored; all webpages render with GNU FreeFont (sans + serif; sans is very similar to San Francisco / Helvetica) and Fira Code. It looks great; once in a blue moon I find a page where typography is the focus of the page and in those instances I copy the URL into another browser. When I occasionally use that other browser for normal browsing, the presence of custom fonts makes me feel the same way as when you turn off an ad blocker and surf the web - it's absolutely disgusting. There's no reason to allow companies to push their ridiculous branding styles down our throats.
An idea I just had is to make a browser addon which automatically tries to do this - every element's color value is categorized as light, dark, accent, etc. and then gets replaced by the user-configured theme.
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#10This site is one of the best dark theme site designs I have seen. Good job.
This is ridiculous. Why should every site have to design their own light and/or dark themes? When you visited the site you thought it had a great theme; I on the other hand ended up leaving after 5 seconds because light text on black or near-black backgrounds makes my eyes hurt. This uses gray text which makes it a bit easier than some other dark sites, but gray on black causes issues for a number of other people. A…
It would be nice if browsers had a built in standardized design mode to let people view the content the way they want. Like reader mode but more powerful, and standardized.