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Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by JohnFen »

KronisLV wrote: post #18

Tried out all of their themes on the welcome page, which seems like a nice showcase of what's available when you switch the themes: https://research.exoticsilicon.com/welcome Here's the aspects that I personally enjoyed: - Tropical nights: this feels like a pleasant theme on the eyes, almost like an IDE dark mode - Nitrate memories: another theme that feels fairly readable, with the contrast being okay in *most* plac…

> That said, when most of the web looks more or less the same way, it feels like this site stands out too much and the design detracts from the experience, in my eyes.

The site's design is not to my taste -- but I seriously love that it doesn't look like almost all of the rest of the web.

Most of the web all looks the same. I applaud Exotic Silicon for pushing back against that.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by kjs3 »

ricardobayes wrote: post #82
midenginedcoupe wrote: post #53

Reminds me of Lings Cars: https://www.lingscars.com/ Not a niche or hobbyist website, but a genuine car leasing company. Who's owner deliberately styled the site like this to act as a differentiator in a crowded market. It's certainly unique, I'll give them that.

Wow that average time to respond timer is nice, wish more sites did that.

I would lease a car from that man.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by marcosdumay »

unosama wrote: post #115
capableweb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems unlikely to be enforceable as "overly expansive", as someone could surely argue our brains are just AI and/or ML but in organic form. Does that mean I'm not allowed to learn from the website?

Neural networks are modeled of human brains in some ways but the majority of AI is not and humans just anthropomorphize the results. Humans don't take in terabytes of data and spend hours fitting a multidimensional regression between labels and the raw data. We build logical connections to understand things over continued exposure. Just because AI "feels" human does not mean it approaches anything actually resembling…

> Neural networks are modeled of human brains in some ways

Hum... Not really. They are modeled after our periferic nervous system. Detailed knowledge about the brain wasn't very available at computer science departments at the time they were created. Besides, they have a much "cleaner" design that would win the computer scientists esthetic preferences every time anyway.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by toomanyrichies »

blowski wrote: post #150
falcolas wrote: post #143

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> Should the vast majority of the world who do not have those health issues be deprived of its glory, because there is a minority who - very sadly and unfortunately for them - cannot look at it? FWIW, the law says yes. And the law is right, IMO: we should not deprive a minority of their rights just because the majority is fine with the status quo. And everyone will become disabled if they don't die young. Eyesight in…

Which law? Show me.

They may be referring to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act [1], which:

> ...requires federal agencies and any institution that receives federal funding to make electronic technology and information equally accessible for individuals with disabilities. This means that an organization's website must have all features just as accessible for individuals with disabilities as these features are for individuals without disabilities. For example, it must be equally easy for an individual with a disability to find information about an organization's services on their website as it is for non-disabled individuals to access this information.

This is an American law, but obviously other countries may have their own equivalents.

1. https://acs-web.com/digital-marketing-lexicon/section-508-of...

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by bombcar »

doodlesdev wrote: post #149
bombcar wrote: post #71

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There are various themes and it works well on mobile and doesn’t look like every single other website out there today, so I count it as a win. It’s kind of how so many LaTeX documents look the same because nobody bothers to design anything; the inverse problem from Word where things are too easy to change.

> It’s kind of how so many LaTeX documents look the same because nobody bothers to design anything I see that as a feature honestly.

Oh, it certainly is, but the further you drift from "scientific report/research paper" the worse the defaults get.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by than3 »

If the site text is not easily readable by anyone, you are doing something wrong.

This is like saying, we want to make our site progressive, so we'll embed a bunch of things in a magic eye, and the people reading can do free-viewing for that steroscopic effect.

Nevermind the simple fact that roughly 10% of the global population is color blind and as a result will biologically never be able to see it if the colors are wrong.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by MavisBacon »

renewiltord wrote: post #151
jrm4 wrote: post #141

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I find it wildly ridiculous that we've more or less abandoned the practically simple idea of "the web is text, so just let people render the text how they want in their browsers. " Yet another reminder of the overblown nature of UX/UI in general. Given the current push for accessibility, seems like "make the text accessible" should be the goal above all else.

You can use a userstyle on the webpage. It works. It's quite straightforward actually.

I think most people are going to give up before they find that link in the footer, and regardless these themes still present accessibility issues, especially that static image background. I personally find even the "mostly monochrome" style very difficult to read through and I'm guessing I'm not the only one.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by rektide »

KronisLV wrote: post #18

Tried out all of their themes on the welcome page, which seems like a nice showcase of what's available when you switch the themes: https://research.exoticsilicon.com/welcome Here's the aspects that I personally enjoyed: - Tropical nights: this feels like a pleasant theme on the eyes, almost like an IDE dark mode - Nitrate memories: another theme that feels fairly readable, with the contrast being okay in *most* plac…

I really really miss the multi-skinned website thing. Having multiple personalities for your site was such just a rip roaring cool thing. That whole idea of a site being an experience has gotten simmered away. In many cases that reduction of friction is due & appreciated, but there's something to be said for having a bit of an experience too, even if it is a kind of shallow/transactional bit.

My first webshack internship had a nice website with like 20+ very slick early web designs folks could switch between. So cool.

There's the Css Zen Garden, a set of html elements to practice your design chops on. That was so the spirit of web design, highlighted so powerfully how bodaciously rad having html structured information & css styling as separate entities was, rather than as almost all UI toolkit do having the two concerns more intermingled. Zen Garden Forever. https://www.csszengarden.com/

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