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Au contraire: HN’s interface. I know no one who is displeased with the simplicity of design except designers themselves*. Just like premature optimization for engineers, it feels like designers are building for themselves rather than their customer. In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. -Hendry Wadsworth
All links and buttons are freakishly small.
Google has recently screwed this up too with Material You where every single icon looks basically the same. App icons should be distinct. They are there for you to recognize the app! Monochrome and uniform shape does not help with this.
My brain basically chooses icons by color content, so when everything is a primary color picker, I err frequently.
In my admittedly imperfect memory, I thought it was Microsoft and not Apple that led the charge with the first wave of “flat” interface design, Google quickly following. iOS 7 was a round of catching up, and could only have happened after Steve Jobs. Remember the much-derided Corinthian leather of the OS X address book, inspired by his personal Gulfstream? He loved that visual approach. iOS 7 was sold as bringing the…
I was almost with the writer, until I got to the sandwich.
Au contraire: HN’s interface. I know no one who is displeased with the simplicity of design except designers themselves*. Just like premature optimization for engineers, it feels like designers are building for themselves rather than their customer. In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. -Hendry Wadsworth
HN could use a serious mobile update. All links and buttons are freakishly small.
This is too funny. The Cardhop icon (packed with “personality”) praised at the end of the blog post now looks like this: https://flexibits.com/img/new-fantastical/logo/product/cardh...
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HN could use a serious mobile update. All links and buttons are freakishly small.
I just want dark mode.
that is funny, just the other day i was thinking about how i wished twitter, in particular, felt more 'fun', and started making a stylesheet to try and make it feel more 2006-ish or something lol https://i.jollo.org/xoYwhYpb.png
Au contraire: HN’s interface. I know no one who is displeased with the simplicity of design except designers themselves*. Just like premature optimization for engineers, it feels like designers are building for themselves rather than their customer. In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. -Hendry Wadsworth
The premature optimization here, is not trying skeumorphism again, because of a feeling.
To be honest, maybe i'm in the minority, but I don't want my tech/UI/designed stuff to have 'personality'. I want it to fade into the background as if it isn't there so i can get on and live my life. I want it to be simple, to get out of my way and do what it is supposed to do. I feel like the world and particularly tech products are overwhelmingly noisy. I yearn for everything to be more simple. Less notifications,…
First thing i do, when i get a OS, is take a iron broom to the various Programmer Egos in the room. It has to go, the notifications, the ballons, the updates and other busy work simulators. GUI goes grey, the various empty real estate modes are turned off. Then i try to protect the environment i created from the damage the original creators can do. Take a snapshot, kick the VMs Network driver if needs be. If somethin…