On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:33:10PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote: > A thought just occurred to me. Maybe we need to instigate a cultural shift > where people think about style guides as less dictated by hard-coded rules > that were "passed down from the mountain" and more as derived from research > that we can all understand about usability.
That would be fantastic, but it's a real uphill battle. How long have we known about the effects of low-contrast on readability? https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/ http://contrastrebellion.com/ And don't get me started on the awful, awful choices made for chart design and data visualisation. We know how to make good charts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte and yet: https://i.redd.it/0w0y1r1ba8x01.jpg -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
