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Re: Sanding UI

#91

Post by ccakes »

xyst wrote: post #80

I wonder what’s the most polished or “sanded” UI out there? You would think FAANG would have a half decent UI and UX with the amount of money they have. But anybody that has used Amazon.com or AWS, GCP, or even Azure would beg to differ. Personally, off the top of my head. The most polished UI/UX has to be “mcmaster.com”. I can find anything I need in what seems like a couple minutes. Compare this to big box stores l…

imo GitHub has to be up there. I think some of the recent changes to search and making the code view more IDE-like are steps backward from a “polish” perspective, but still useful features

Re: Sanding UI

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Post by donatj »

As a fellow old, I'm inclined to say labels should just wrap the control unless there's a very good reason for it not to. Would have completely prevented the issue, wouldn't need a global ID nor the "for". Just generally more semantic and cleaner.

Re: Sanding UI

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Post by donatj »

xyst wrote: post #80

I wonder what’s the most polished or “sanded” UI out there? You would think FAANG would have a half decent UI and UX with the amount of money they have. But anybody that has used Amazon.com or AWS, GCP, or even Azure would beg to differ. Personally, off the top of my head. The most polished UI/UX has to be “mcmaster.com”. I can find anything I need in what seems like a couple minutes. Compare this to big box stores l…

I can name multiple Facebook features that have been broken for months. Temporary profile pictures most annoyingly of all. They stopped working close to a year ago. They simply never change back.

No one's sanding anything there.

Re: Sanding UI

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Post by two_handfuls »

Meanwhile, some other UI uses square boxes for radio buttons.

Or have a highlighted button but the enter key doesn't activate it.

Or there are three different menus all behind a different symbol (ellipsis, hamburger, kebab).

There is a lot of variance in quality. Those of you who polish your UI: you are appreciated. Truly.

Re: Sanding UI

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Post by selimco »

two_handfuls wrote: post #94

Meanwhile, some other UI uses square boxes for radio buttons. Or have a highlighted button but the enter key doesn't activate it. Or there are three different menus all behind a different symbol (ellipsis, hamburger, kebab). There is a lot of variance in quality. Those of you who polish your UI: you are appreciated. Truly.

I think space is usually the key that performs a click on focused buttons, not enter.

Re: Sanding UI

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Post by blovescoffee »

xyst wrote: post #80

I wonder what’s the most polished or “sanded” UI out there? You would think FAANG would have a half decent UI and UX with the amount of money they have. But anybody that has used Amazon.com or AWS, GCP, or even Azure would beg to differ. Personally, off the top of my head. The most polished UI/UX has to be “mcmaster.com”. I can find anything I need in what seems like a couple minutes. Compare this to big box stores l…

mcmaster is the most polished ui/ux you know? To each their own but this is a very hackernews comment - it's very much a site for engineers but I can't agree it's a polished UI or UX.

To me: Sense of hierarchy is off, accessibility is meh, there's an enormity of information per page, there's poor use of color and spacing... it could be worse but I can imagine this site giving my designer friends a seizure.

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Post by [deleted] »

xyst wrote: post #80

I wonder what’s the most polished or “sanded” UI out there? You would think FAANG would have a half decent UI and UX with the amount of money they have. But anybody that has used Amazon.com or AWS, GCP, or even Azure would beg to differ. Personally, off the top of my head. The most polished UI/UX has to be “mcmaster.com”. I can find anything I need in what seems like a couple minutes. Compare this to big box stores l…

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Post by fhdsgbbcaA »

DustinBrett wrote: post #44

I've been "sanding" my personal website ( https://dustinbrett.com ) for nearly 4 years now, and it feels like it could go on forever. Luckily I enjoy working on it.

Ok, be honest: how many hours put into this were during 9-5, and on the boss’ dime?

I hope all of them. :-)

Re: Sanding UI

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Post by [deleted] »

blovescoffee wrote: post #97
xyst wrote: post #80

I wonder what’s the most polished or “sanded” UI out there? You would think FAANG would have a half decent UI and UX with the amount of money they have. But anybody that has used Amazon.com or AWS, GCP, or even Azure would beg to differ. Personally, off the top of my head. The most polished UI/UX has to be “mcmaster.com”. I can find anything I need in what seems like a couple minutes. Compare this to big box stores l…

mcmaster is the most polished ui/ux you know? To each their own but this is a very hackernews comment - it's very much a site for engineers but I can't agree it's a polished UI or UX. To me: Sense of hierarchy is off, accessibility is meh, there's an enormity of information per page, there's poor use of color and spacing... it could be worse but I can imagine this site giving my designer friends a seizure.

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