Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
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Re: Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
#2Uhh I don’t think it does. Japanese websites have notoriously terrible accessibility and UX.
Re: Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
#3A web page full of information is complex? All webpages used to be like that, nobody found it complicated, I wouldn't mind going back to more information dense pages.
Re: Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
#4Uhh I don’t think it does. Japanese websites have notoriously terrible accessibility and UX.
The UX is fine for people who are used to a culture where they see massively information-dense, brightly colored, and spacially organized things all the time. There's a strong cultural correlation in UX design, and what works in one country often doesn't work in another. I've worked on a few websites that are accessed globally and it's common that a 'one website for everywhere' strategy yields poor results. You have to consider much more than just language when you go international.
Accessibility is a problem but that's due to browser developers not really considering other cultures properly. My Japanese team never found a good solution to that.
Re: Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
#5Many many Japanese websites do not work. They have idiosyncratic navigation and dense and convoluted signup processes. Japanese user are used to this friction but websits do not succeed because of this complexity, they pass because of tolerant user base.
Re: Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
#6Uhh I don’t think it does. Japanese websites have notoriously terrible accessibility and UX.
Yeah, who needs information and functionality? The whole web should be one ceaseless Instagram feed on an iPhone. /s
Re: Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
#7A web page full of information is complex? All webpages used to be like that, nobody found it complicated, I wouldn't mind going back to more information dense pages.
We don't mind information density, but most people find it easier to process less information.
The youtuber mentions that "Asians" can process information faster than "Americans"
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Re: Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
#8Ah yes, Japanese databases that have maximum length for password and weirdly limits what characters you can enter. Banking systems that still link your information against your name, ending up in hilarious situations. Forms that won't fit your name, so you end up doing the snail mail method instead. Not sure about the local laws, but white hat would have a field day with Japanese services and web sites.
Re: Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
#9This topic gets rehashed pretty frequently, what other languages have very different designs? I remember someone linking to cool Mongolian sites with vertical script.
Also I like "outdated" Japanese designs, I wish websdesign was more cyclical like fashion and we'd circle back to earlier web. I don't care much for LLMs, but I do like getting blocks of text returned, reminds me of simpler times.
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