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Re: Stripe live dashboard

#51

I find it pretty funny when designers have it in their mandate to make a number look as cool as possible. You see it on dashboards or all kinds of things like this. I think it would be a good design challenge. Make a decimal number look cool. No other constraints.

See, that’s a real problem with modern day design: it’s all about making things look cool instead of just no-bullshit functional.

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Re: Stripe live dashboard

#52
post #17

This reliably kills Firefox on Linux here. The whole browser. After a few seconds, during which the laptop fans are spinnung up, all tabs go into a "This tab just crashed" state.

Same here on Firefox and Brave

Re: Stripe live dashboard

#53

I find it pretty funny when designers have it in their mandate to make a number look as cool as possible. You see it on dashboards or all kinds of things like this. I think it would be a good design challenge. Make a decimal number look cool. No other constraints.

See, that’s a real problem with modern day design: it’s all about making things look cool instead of just no-bullshit functional.

Similar to the concept of “user as the product,” when data is made to look cool the purpose of the data is to attract attention, not be the object of attention.

Is any person looking at that “live dashboard” as an actionable data source?

Re: Stripe live dashboard

#54

I find it pretty funny when designers have it in their mandate to make a number look as cool as possible. You see it on dashboards or all kinds of things like this. I think it would be a good design challenge. Make a decimal number look cool. No other constraints.

See, that’s a real problem with modern day design: it’s all about making things look cool instead of just no-bullshit functional.

The problem that people make quick judgements based on appearance is not modern. I also would like to just make things functional and have people quickly see the value, but unfortunately we're stuck with the need to also make things look cool.

Re: Stripe live dashboard

#55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See, that’s a real problem with modern day design: it’s all about making things look cool instead of just no-bullshit functional.

False dichotomy, this an advertisement, would it be on the front page if it was just bare HTML instead of a pander-to-your-audience retro look? Good design can establish identity without totally ruining the UX.

Lots of important info get posted in HN everyday without the fancy design that takes a lot of clicks and waiting times, so how could you assume it won’t make it to the front page?

This is why people need to stop using the “false dichotomy” card in every discussion. It’s so devoid of rigor in thinking and is always used lazily to frame another person’s comment in a paradigm that it wasn’t intended to be framed.

Re: Stripe live dashboard

#56

I find it pretty funny when designers have it in their mandate to make a number look as cool as possible. You see it on dashboards or all kinds of things like this. I think it would be a good design challenge. Make a decimal number look cool. No other constraints.

See, that’s a real problem with modern day design: it’s all about making things look cool instead of just no-bullshit functional.

I wish this were true. I am dying for the late 90s/early 2000s weird web design, as I am so bored of the typical boring website design today.

Re: Stripe live dashboard

#57
Interesting that GBP has a volume of 413 million and EUR 420 million, I would have assumed that EUR is much bigger than GBP, does anyone know why they are so close? Also, interesting that the top conversion is GBP -> EUR.
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