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"Creativity is bad for UI design" Way to misdiagnose. It's wholly possible to have a UI that is both creative and easy to use. Most of the bad UIs and UXs I'v
by freshbagels 7y ago
"Creativity is bad for UI design"
Way to misdiagnose. It's wholly possible to have a UI that is both creative and easy to use.
Most of the bad UIs and UXs I've seen have been the result of a lack of critical thinking and/or user empathy.
- hinkley 7y agoOvert cleverness is jarring and irritating. I think that’s the sort of creativity they’re talking about. When I was starting as a developer I got a lot of pushback on some of the creative things I did and ended up redirecting a lot of that energy to reliability concerns, including human factors issues (human errors cause bugs). At this point I take - and use - “clever” as an epithet.
- anoncake 7y agoCreatively solving problems is good. Creatively doing things differently just to stand out is not (in UX at least).