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chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Web/UI design in general has sucked for at least 14 years now. Everything is spaced too far apart and text/images are too big. Icons are used for critical functionality instead of words. Pointless animations and gradients slow everything down for no reason.
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 day ago
For some apps, like YouTube or Netflix is TV first now. Make sense having big spaced icons, instead of a screen packed with information
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The thing that drives me the craziest is when a long title or sentence or whatever is just truncated with ellipses, even when there is ENORMOUS blank white space around it that would easily allow the whole thing to be shown with word-wrapping. Youtube shorts is the most egregious example of this, and they recently managed to make it even worse. It used to be that you could open up the comments for a short and that would make the entire long title readable, but they “fixed” that so it stays ellipsized even then.
The app I use at work to clock in and out ellipsizes my own name halfway through my middle name, and it could be easily fixed by just stretching the control that displays the name all the way to each edge. I used to be a mobile app developer and I know exactly why this happens: the UI designer uses a bogus short name like “Bob Smith” on the original design document and the developer who implements it puts in a control just big enough for that. I used to encounter this kind of thing and I would fix it with common sense, and then the UI designer would get mad and insist that my fix be reverted, even though that resulted in something that couldn’t display the information properly.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Icons are used for critical functionality instead of words.
Not just web ui. I’ve noticed this trend with applications as well. It’s much harder to learn new applications now because you have to look up a guide for everything. Hovering over the icons doesn’t even work as often as it should.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because hovering/tooltips doesn’t work for touchscreens and designers don’t give two shits about anything else.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I just discovered a new function on my car - when I listen to music, a small rectangle appears with audio controls …… apparently it a tile that can be scrolled left and right to see other data. I never would have thought to try that if I didn’t read it somewhere, no visual cues
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s ruled by clicks, rather than usefulness or friendliness
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 10 hours ago
What was was so great about web design in 2012? It was barely any different back then except for being much worse on phones. And the main reason for your complaints is the need to accommodate phones.
I feel like I’m sharing this website with a bunch of crotchety old men who just want to complain
chunes@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You’re right, but 2012 is when they started paying too much attention to mobile and it started to bleed into everything else.
The 90s was clearly better, UI-wise, so yes, I wish people would go back to that.