IBM Plex – A new typeface • Hacker News Board

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#11

Post by boznz » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:46 PM UTC

Wow, What a shit web site, I'd hate to see what a payroll system looks like :-)

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#12

Post by Mononokay » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:46 PM UTC

baconomatic wrote: post #2

Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more? Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.

It's been around for at least a year.

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#13

Post by dharness » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:47 PM UTC

baconomatic wrote: post #2

Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more? Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.

Yeah wow what a horrible website...

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#14

Post by csours » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:48 PM UTC

baconomatic wrote: post #2

Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more? Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.

It's almost like the UI designer took it as a personal challenge to see how horrible they could make the experience.

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#15

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:50 PM UTC

CabSauce wrote: post #6

baconomatic wrote: post #2

Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more? Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.

This might be the worst version of this type of page I've ever seen.

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Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#16

Post by thrillgore » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:50 PM UTC

boznz wrote: post #11

Wow, What a shit web site, I'd hate to see what a payroll system looks like :-)

Or an iOS app to randomly select between two columns...

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#17

Post by 2fifty3 » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:50 PM UTC

Great looking font, I think my scroll wheel might be exhausted from that webpage though.

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#18

Post by seibelj » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:50 PM UTC

From my experience dealing with IBM, I can only imagine this was the result of 5 different consulting teams, assisted by 3 different outsourced development groups, which was delayed numerous times, then Watson was added, and then a re-org caused by layoffs, which finally resulted in a website that couldn't scroll and caused the CPU of my high-end laptop to scream...

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#19

Post by htor » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

introducing scroll-o-death page

Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface

#20

Post by outside2344 » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

I'm glad they are wasting their time on this versus being relevant.