Hot take: modern front-end developers lack expertise in UI and typography to even notice such things.
modern? I'm pretty sure that's always been the case. It's a hard job and not enough people have ever been good at it.
Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
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#52But is it really worth fixing these things? What do you achieve by spending time and money to fix these details, other than making users slightly less annoyed by your design? Maybe these details are not fixed because they don’t really matter that much. Have you ever stopped using an app because a button or icon was slightly misaligned?
A well-designed product will sell better than a slightly-less-well-designed product
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#53> That’s exactly why people love web programming so much. There’s always a challenge. LOL, these examples are exactly why I got out of web programming. Thankfully I never had to deal with any of the modern frameworks. I was getting hot flashes just scrolling through this page.
Eh, this article has absolutely nothing to do with web frameworks?
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#54Surely we all know at this point that the two hardest things in programming are: naming things, threading, and off-by-one errors.
What happened to cache invalidation?
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#58> That’s exactly why people love web programming so much. There’s always a challenge. LOL, these examples are exactly why I got out of web programming. Thankfully I never had to deal with any of the modern frameworks. I was getting hot flashes just scrolling through this page.
Whats so terrible about the modern frameworks? I used to have that attitude, but after trying the latest version of ReactJS I think its pretty nifty for what its intention is.
For me, personally, React makes up too many new things just with potentially slight modification and thus adding unnecessary layers of complexity. Then it is incredibly painful if you're ever in a position to debug someone else's code when they were using react. It's not as bad as having to deal with graphQL but it's still pretty awful.
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#59But is it really worth fixing these things? What do you achieve by spending time and money to fix these details, other than making users slightly less annoyed by your design? Maybe these details are not fixed because they don’t really matter that much. Have you ever stopped using an app because a button or icon was slightly misaligned?
It doesn't give me much confidence in the company's seriousness about quality. When I see these kinds of things in applications, my mind starts thinking, "OK, I wonder what else they half-assed?" Does the main functionality really work? If they can't even notice problems that you can literally see with your eyes, what important invisible things are broken, too? Should I really fork over hard-earned money for the premium version if they can't even get basic shit right?
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#60But is it really worth fixing these things? What do you achieve by spending time and money to fix these details, other than making users slightly less annoyed by your design? Maybe these details are not fixed because they don’t really matter that much. Have you ever stopped using an app because a button or icon was slightly misaligned?
I think realistically it's more of a situation of why don't they just work correctly in the first place. It's not that everyone should spend extreme amounts of efforts for perfection it's that this is one of the most basic things that should just be correct out of the box.