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You're confusing user interface design and graphic design, which are two different disciplines with different goals, neither of which is to be merely distractin
by sizzle 9y ago
You're confusing user interface design and graphic design, which are two different disciplines with different goals, neither of which is to be merely distracting.
"Dumbing it down" = designing for user's mental models = ux design
- krapp 9y ago>"Dumbing it down" = designing for user's mental models = ux design Riiight... when Reddit designs their UI around the mental model of mainstream users, they're dumbing it down, but when Hacker News designs their UI around pg's mental model of "good hackers", they're being elegant and minimalist.