Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
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Re: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
#2Lately I've occasionally been running into round check boxes that look like radio buttons. Why????
Re: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
#3... and please stop doing paralax...
Re: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
#4> Prefer words to icons. Use only icons that are universally understood.
Underrated. Except for dyslexic people, and the most obvious icon forms, I am pretty sure most people are just better and faster at recognising single words at a glance than icons.
Re: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
#5Lately I've occasionally been running into round check boxes that look like radio buttons. Why????
UX want to put their own spin on things. I’ve noticed this repeatedly.
UX has gotten from something with a cause to being the cause for something
Re: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
#6UX has really gone downhill. This is particularly true of banking websites.
Also, the trend of hiding scrollbars, huge wasted spaces, making buttons look really flat, confusing icons, confusing ways of using drop downs rather than using the select/option html controls etc have all made the whole experience far inferior to where desktop UI was even decades ago
Re: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
#7My hope is that since tools like Google Stitch have made fancy looking design free that it will become obvious how functionally worthless fancy looking design always was. It used to signal that a site paid a lot of money and was therefore legitimate. Now it signals nothing.
Re: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
#8> Prefer words to icons. Use only icons that are universally understood. Underrated. Except for dyslexic people, and the most obvious icon forms, I am pretty sure most people are just better and faster at recognising single words at a glance than icons.
...except for HN "unvote"/"undown" feedback which is especially unfortunate due to the shared prefix. Every time I upvote something I squint at the unvote/undown to make sure I didn't misclick.
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#9UIs are inconsistent even in the same app. Nevermind plugins or suites. It would be great if menus were customizable so you could plug in your own template.
Re: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
#10The web needs a HIG.
All of these people who keep saying that webapps can replace desktop applications were simply never desktop power users. They don’t know what they don’t know.