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Post by vagrantJin »

nostromo wrote: post #68
neilpanchal wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are so many things that bother me about contemporary UI in general, I ranted on here the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965293 I sincerely feel that the discipline of building user interfaces is long lost and perhaps never to come back. From car dashboards to loud typography, the whole field is regressing. Minimalism, too much white space, infantilization of users, design trends, loss of pred…

This soulless corporate style of illustration not a single person likes: https://www.imgur.com/DcL05OA.gif (This could be a subset of infantilization, since this art style seems to come from books for toddlers.)

Dribble and Behance unfortunately dictate UI/UX as trendy photoshop ideas infiltrate real websites.

What about usability? What about accessibility?

Nope.

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Post by scpedicini »

I got sick of having to open a new tab, navigate to google images, type in my search just to find a quick one off image. Having to do that dozens of times was really taking me out of my workflow.

I wrote a windows app that lets you quickly search google images and copy the original image to your clipboard for ease of use when chatting or if you need to paste a quick image into a document you are working on. It's GPL-3 in GitHub:

https://github.com/scpedicini/truman-show

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Post by Too »

towndrunk wrote: post #85
userbinator wrote: post #73

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Minimalism, too much white space Those two tend to be related. It really angers me every time I see a huge amount of whitespace for no good reason, but then most of the functionality is hidden behind a dropdown menu whose equally stupid '...' indicator only shows up when you happen to hover over it. WTF. Back when UIs were still good, things would usually be hidden only if there wasn't enough space. You could see alm…

"indicator only shows up when you happen to hover over it. WTF." My wife and I had this conversation the other day. There are things in iOS you only get or see if you long press. How the hell are you to discover these things?

Some times not even long pressing is enough. Try to find the timestamps of your texts in Messages on iOS.

I spent several minutes bashing around, double tapping, longpress, force press, went into settings to look for toggles. Had to google it eventually. Turns out you do this by swiping left. And i had actually tried to swipe sideways before, but only right.

Once you know it it's actually very convenient, but discovering it is near impossible.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by zerocrates »

ZoomStop wrote: post #33
therealmarv wrote: post #25

Just use Yandex Image search. It also has a reverse image functionality and it does not censor as much as Google Images.

It also allows for searching by size which of course Google removed with updates but helps greatly when searching for icons, wallpapers, etc.

You can still search by size on Google Images (though you're limited to fairly coarse categories of sizes).

It's hidden under "Tools."

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Post by Green_man »

0xfffafaCrash wrote: post #77
rajacombinator wrote: post #71

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What is the name for this abhorrent trend, and how did it originate and become ubiquitous?

It's a "flat design" vector art style inspired by the work of the Memphis Group that's called "Corporate Memphis" primarily by critics. While Hacker News is apparently too sophisticated to be condescended to with simplistic animations that look good at very different resolutions, I think a lot of people like it. If everyone hated this and considered it "corporate," it wouldn't be the one used by some of the animation…

I'm pretty ignorant of design styles, but what always bothered me about "Corporate Memphis", and styles like it, was the very weirdly caricatured humans depicted within it. The people usually look incredibly weird, and while it's not quite "uncanny valley" or whatever, it feels like a very cheap and ineffective attempt at implying diversity. Maybe this isn't the intent at all, but it's most noticeable when there are differently deformed people in the art. People in real life come in all shapes and sizes, but not in the same way, with very bright colors and comically different proportions. As a non graphic designer, I appreciate that such a flat, 2D style may require some unrealistic designs, but as a human, I'm pretty sensitive to depictions of especially unrealistic human imposters. I adore Kutzgesagt, and I think that may be due in part to their predominant use of birds and other animals as agents, rather than strangely proportioned people.

"Here we love people, even if they have enormous hands!" https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbWYR4lWkAEOgAo.jpg

"I don't care if you're white, brown, black, orange, or purple!" https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Aleg...

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Post by echelon »

chii wrote: post #95
towndrunk wrote: post #85

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"indicator only shows up when you happen to hover over it. WTF." My wife and I had this conversation the other day. There are things in iOS you only get or see if you long press. How the hell are you to discover these things?

It's a subtle psychological manipulation of the mind of the users of computers - stick to the simple use case, and don't do complicated things, don't try to be an advanced user, don't think for yourself and just consume what we tell you to. I hate it.

> I hate it.

There's nothing you can do. Computing stopped being about expert users the minute the rest of the world got online. Now the giants control all the devices, platforms, and mindshare. They will never cater to you. Informed users aren't the ones clicking the ads or buying the things as intended.

We've crossed into the gravity well of user hostility, and there's no longer any escape.

I hate it too.

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Post by rebuilder »

towndrunk wrote: post #85
userbinator wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Minimalism, too much white space Those two tend to be related. It really angers me every time I see a huge amount of whitespace for no good reason, but then most of the functionality is hidden behind a dropdown menu whose equally stupid '...' indicator only shows up when you happen to hover over it. WTF. Back when UIs were still good, things would usually be hidden only if there wasn't enough space. You could see alm…

"indicator only shows up when you happen to hover over it. WTF." My wife and I had this conversation the other day. There are things in iOS you only get or see if you long press. How the hell are you to discover these things?

>How the hell are you to discover these things?

The same way power users discover e.g. keyboard shortcuts, I imagine.

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Post by hangtwenty »

gchokov wrote: post #5

Someone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?

You are not alone!

And I am very, very pissed off at the neglect of Google Classroom's UI. I wish they had (and would still) stay out of education, it's so irresponsible to half-ass it like they have.

Google Classroom's UI problems have got to be negatively impacting kids' schooling. It's unethical.

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Post by userbinator »

rebuilder wrote: post #127
towndrunk wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"indicator only shows up when you happen to hover over it. WTF." My wife and I had this conversation the other day. There are things in iOS you only get or see if you long press. How the hell are you to discover these things?

>How the hell are you to discover these things? The same way power users discover e.g. keyboard shortcuts, I imagine.

The same way power users discover e.g. keyboard shortcuts, I imagine.

At least keyboard shortcuts are visible directly in the menus, for both Windows and Mac.

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Post by de6u99er »

anothernewdude wrote: post #114
de6u99er wrote: post #102

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I disabled YouTube on my Android phone, and use it in the browser instead. It is heavily overloaded with functionality, that any accidental touch results in an unwanted action. Google Search on mobile browsers is horrible too. When having a typo in the search terms and trying to fix it, the search field moves to the top of the screen and it constantly happens that I click on the second or third entry in the list of s…

I cannot recommend the combination of NewPipe and VLC enough. Have to get NewPipe on your own, because it disables youtube ads as well so it's not on the Play Store. It's been the only offline youtube solution I've found.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.
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