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>Implementing simple design features like overlays or bottom navigation on mobile browsers invariably involves trawling through blogs and forums to find that sp
by zelos 9y ago
>Implementing simple design features like overlays or bottom navigation on mobile browsers invariably involves trawling through blogs and forums to find that special hack that worked for that one guy that one day in June.
Then why do so many bloody mobile sites implement them then? They're terrible for reading and interaction.
- ceejayoz 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
- ashark 9y agoI think that when this happens in design it's more about looking normal so as to project credibility (so that people will take you seriously/give you money). The important part is not that actual browers/people-spending-money feel this way, but that product owners and designers think they do (and maybe they're right, I don't know, though Kalzumeus' post about the success of the Big Ugly Button makes me think they're at least sometimes wrong). This is what drives web design trend-chasing, when really the old two-or-three-column-header-footer sites of The Distant Past of A Decade Ago were totally fine and often more usable than the "beautiful" crap put out today. But they look "old" so out they go.
- ivanbakel 9y agoSurely that's exactly the cargo-cultish part of it? POs are convinced this is how mobile is done to the point of following those principles without actual user input.