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slightly off-topic but i hope a UX person from medium would stumble upon this. medium posts have a terrible UX -- for me at least. i tend to set my fonts to be
by blondin 8y ago
slightly off-topic but i hope a UX person from medium would stumble upon this. medium posts have a terrible UX -- for me at least. i tend to set my fonts to be 125%-150% larger. it gives me an easy-to-read feeling on most blogs. especially when fonts are chosen carefully. but this breaks medium blogs so bad i often gave up on many articles. the header usually takes 40% of the viewport height. and there's always a "get updates" footer which also takes about 20%. so yes... what you care about fits in less than half the space. and on posts with many big pictures, it just gets worse.
btw, my phone also has larger fonts but the reading experience is so much better! but ofc that too is ruined by the constant nagging about getting the "real app" (when all i did is click on your own digest which opened in the browser...).
i mean i understand why you guys are doing all that but i certainly share the sentiment of OP here that the combination of all that makes medium look somehow annoying...
- sonnyblarney 8y agoOveruse of white space, really weird comment/reply system and more. It's nice on the eyes purely from an aesthetic perspective, but I agree it lacks on the X in UX. It's a few shades form over function. Side note: Apple's new Swift documentation feels like this to me. It was designed to look and read like a novel. Full of prose, lack of use of colour, wrong fonts, way too big. The 'parent class' is down at the bottom of the document! So many things like that. It looks great a first glance but it really lacks in X.
- mLuby 8y agoThe highlight/comment/DM system is the only part I like (and actually love it—all text sites should use it IMO).
- michaelpinto 8y agoa ux designer would tell you to not trust your own experience, but to measure the experience of others.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoHopefully, a UX designer would consider comments here as data points, or at least as a source of ideas for experiments to run.
- aembleton 8y agoJust use the reader mode in your browser.
- reitanqild 8y agoI've never heard as much about UX as now and never before has software been so broken. Or maybe I'm just getting old.