Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer

Post by wst_ » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 11:06 PM UTC

pazimzadeh wrote: post #49

Design is how it works, not how it looks. This article seems to mainly be talking about the "polish" of a design. There are more important principles which don't have anything to do with polish, such as not putting the Cancel button next to the Ok button. More like this: https://lawsofux.com https://asktog.com/atc/principles-of-interaction-design/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles I recommend prototyping the flow/feel…

Post by chiefalchemist » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 11:21 PM UTC

albertop wrote: post #148

falcolas wrote: post #131

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Respectfully, fuck that. Beauty matters the first time you use it, whereas functionality matters every single time. Or, in business terms, beauty has terrible ROI.

Tell it to Apple.

Post by masfuerte » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 11:34 PM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #115

Uehreka wrote: post #109

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> Design is how it works, not how it looks. After over a decade of people jumping into these discussions with this line, I’ve gotta push back: Design is also how things look, and how things look can be important. Consumers care about how things look. If we dismiss presentation and drive people towards UX stuff every time it comes up, then the people we talk to are going to end up having good ideas that no one buys be…

I'd also note that despite Jakob Nielsen's prominence nobody designs like he suggests. We should be open to the idea that beauty and delight may be more important than usability or features.

Post by KyeRussell » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 11:35 PM UTC

illiarian wrote: post #74

clumsysmurf wrote: post #7

Often the bad designs come from the designers themselves. Just as software developers often fall prey to "NIH", many designers feel the established design systems like Material are insufficient for some reason. That is OK, if you know the rules you can break them, but often they don't know the rules either (grid system, typography, color for accessibility) and want to make "their own mark" with some new creation that…

> many designers feel the established design systems like Material are insufficient for some reason Because Material is awful? In their original iteration they had to do a study with 600 people to find out that text inputs should look like text inputs https://medium.com/google-design/the-evolution-of-material-d... Their latest abomination has almost nothing aligned optically: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/16436…

Post by DangitBobby » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 11:39 PM UTC

wolpoli wrote: post #96

deckard1 wrote: post #76

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> not know what to do with empty space every PM everywhere. They simply cannot leave good enough alone. Eventually every site A/B tests its way until it becomes Reddit mobile site. No one asked for carousels but sites continue to use them. We are getting inundated with popups today. I don't want to say it's as bad as 1990s flash ad popups. But it's getting damn close now. Bullshit cookie popups. "This site is better…

Thanks for posting the steps to turn off the Google Sign-in popup. It's annoying that it's buried through.