Mike, It's romatic to look at good old times, and I understand your frustation, but things are just that way now. You need the market force of Apple, Google or Microsoft to set a trend (just like skeu-then-flat, paper and metro).
Better to adapt, there are more than one way to do things right, Cheer up! Ariel On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Mike Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > "Fashion" is the issue. Just because somebody made something fashionable > does not mean it is correct or easy to use. The younger generation have > never had it easier because they have only known to just tap/click > everywhere until something happens. Let's introduce them to how things are > supposed to work. Go against fashion and with ease of use. We can cite UI > design rule after rule where those rules in the past were based on > meticulous human-computer interaction research. The new generation of UI/UX > designers seemed to have just tossed out all that research for no good > reason. > > Example: Information density in icons. We now have access to "retina" > class displays capable of displaying a LOT of information in an icon. Icon > designers have been waiting 30 years for this to occur. And what happens? > All the fashionable designs use an "outline" icon. Really? Those designers > make the user work harder to attain the same information that a properly > designed icon could store. > > Basic Color use: Why does everything have to be the same color? (I am > looking at you Apple and your monochrome Finder). Some where after OS X > 10.6.8 Apple decided that actually having nicely colored icons in the > Finder was somehow "bad" so now every folder is the same shade of blue. > That makes it really hard for users to distinguish between the "Downloads", > "Home", "Pictures" or some other important folder that we pinned to the > side of the Finder. > > Postbox (An Email Application) recently released a newer version. They > used outline icons and low contrast typography all over the UI. There is > even a point where I have a white outlined folder on a nearly white > background. This just should NOT happen. > > Moral of the story. Don't be fashionable. Be correct. Be easy. Back up > your designs with actual user research. > > -- > Mike Jackson [[email protected]] > > > Ariel Molina wrote: > >> Thing is that what's "easy" is hard to define, it tends to come and go >> as fashion goes. For example, current trend (from several years now) is >> that youngsters find "flat" easy and skeumorphic ugly simply because >> they are used to see things like that. So the UI team have to balance >> three things: ease for hardcore veterans, be appealing and "modern" for >> the new wave, and being easy to use. So they try hard, and I wish them >> the best. >> > -- Ariel Molina R. Oficina: +52 (222) 3723196 Movil: +521 2226 758874 http://edis.mx
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