Designers, anything from you guys?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:28 AM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:46 PM, I wrote:
>>
>> ... every other human interest guideline.
>
>
> Sorry, "Interface". Human interest guidelines lead to the horror of Daily
> Mail Online :-)
>
>> If Quiet and Neutral aren't sufficient Shahyar prototyped at least two
>> more excellent ideas (I can't find the link right now...)
>
> http://area51.yar.gs/wmf/flow1/  To repeat, a page would only use a subset
> of these at any one time, ignore the overstuffed appearance.
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 21/10/15 19:46, S Page wrote:
>>>
>>> Users not understanding the design is no argument for consolidation, I
>>> bet users get an 'D' at best on Material and every other human interest
>>> guideline.
>>
>>
>> If users aren't the ones we are designing for, then who is?
>
>
> Obviously design is for users. But having a pleasant productive time using a
> design and understanding its nuances are very different things.  "Testing
> with your users to see if they understand the difference between [two button
> colors]" seems crazy (unless I misunderstand what designers mean by
> "understand"). Does Google test to see if users understand the difference
> between the rounded edge and the shadowed edge in Material? I really doubt
> it. Different colors and treatments provide different experiences, and there
> are guidelines when to use them.
>
>>
>> Wasn't the whole point of the colours is to call the users' attention to
>> them, and the point of differentiating is to tell the users that these are
>> different things?
>
> Sort of, and yes.
>
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