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I like it, I think it's more readable compared to the one that they show as a current one on the top. It took me a while to find a departure time and gate numbe

by usaphp 9y ago

I like it, I think it's more readable compared to the one that they show as a current one on the top. It took me a while to find a departure time and gate number on the original boarding pass. All the important pieces like flight number, seat and departure time are really easy to read compared to the original. The problem on the original is that they don't emphasize the important information pieces, all is printed in the same font style and size.

dieselz 9y ago
I really dislike comments that are negative about design when someone has spent a lot of time researching the problem and the commenter has not. With that said, here is me doing that exact thing: I agree with usaphp. With equal visual hierarchy, it's dismissing the fact that you care about some items 0% of the time and some items 100% of the time. And this difference between these states can change in minutes. For example, I don't care at all what my seat assignment is until I'm on the plane. I don't care at all what zone I'm boarding until I'm at the gate. I don't care at all what gate it says because gates change all the time. Even if I used mobile kiosk for check-in and it gives me a gate, there's a non-trivial chance that by the time I get to the terminal, that gate has changed. I do not rely on the gate assignment on my boarding pass, ever. Similar items are not grouped when they should be: such as boarding time and gate. And the font is not glance-able. It's a nice font that takes little width, but unless they start changing code share codes to "DL50,381,172", there's a ton of extra space that could be used. (of course whitespace is valuable too, but squishing information together for the sake of squishing it together is not a wise design decision. Regarding someone's comment about color/shitty printers - this kind of design would require two designs: one b/w and one color. The strength of the reds and blues would take over the important information.

by usaphp 9y ago

dieselz 9y ago

I really dislike comments that are negative about design when someone has spent a lot of time researching the problem and the commenter has not. With that said, here is me doing that exact thing: I agree with usaphp. With equal visual hierarchy, it's dismissing the fact that you care about some items 0% of the time and some items 100% of the time. And this difference between these states can change in minutes. For example, I don't care at all what my seat assignment is until I'm on the plane. I don't care at all what zone I'm boarding until I'm at the gate. I don't care at all what gate it says because gates change all the time. Even if I used mobile kiosk for check-in and it gives me a gate, there's a non-trivial chance that by the time I get to the terminal, that gate has changed. I do not rely on the gate assignment on my boarding pass, ever. Similar items are not grouped when they should be: such as boarding time and gate. And the font is not glance-able. It's a nice font that takes little width, but unless they start changing code share codes to "DL50,381,172", there's a ton of extra space that could be used. (of course whitespace is valuable too, but squishing information together for the sake of squishing it together is not a wise design decision. Regarding someone's comment about color/shitty printers - this kind of design would require two designs: one b/w and one color. The strength of the reds and blues would take over the important information.