No Design is the Best Design • Hacker News Board

Re: No Design is the Best Design

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Post by perryizgr8 » Sun, Jun 06, 2021, 5:27 AM UTC

bgrgndzz wrote: post #8

perryizgr8 wrote: post #5

> Users should be able to press cmd+E and just type in "buy milk today #personal, high priority." Why command E? What does e stand for? Why should I press e when I just want to write a note? Why not command n? I think the author is mistaking things he is familiar with, with good design. It's not. Command e to write a note is horrible design.

Definitely. Hope someone spends more time on this and completely eliminates design.

They did. Open Google keep and see how easy it is to write a note. Just start typing. None of these obscure shortcuts required.

Re: No Design is the Best Design

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Post by skybrian » Sun, Jun 06, 2021, 8:01 AM UTC

russelldjimmy wrote: post #16

This leads to a classic debate. Not counting telepathy, the author has found the design that works best… for themselves. This could work well for many other people too, but that remains to be seen. Switching to first person now: The real question is, “What design works best for the target audience of my product?” If my target audience is only me and others like me, then the author’s suggested design is the best. But…

Also, even power users might want to add something to their todo list when they don’t have their laptop out. This notion that you can “type command-e” presupposes someone sitting at a keyboard on a desktop.

“Don’t make be go to my desktop computer to do this” may be a better design.

Re: No Design is the Best Design

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Post by extra88 » Sun, Jun 06, 2021, 11:37 AM UTC

Tommek wrote: post #7

This is a simple blog post. Almost only text. You can't read it with a screen reader because all is loaded via JavaScript. Please stop this crap. Sincerely the open web.

Screen readers can read what's generated by JavaScript just fine but yes, this is a BS way to deliver a blog article. The article content is even in the page, as Markdown in an inline script block, not where a user could read it if something happened to the JS.