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I've never really liked material design. I don't care about your pretty icons, fancy text above (or inside) a box. Save me from your megabytes of CSS and script

I've never really liked material design. I don't care about your pretty icons, fancy text above (or inside) a box. Save me from your megabytes of CSS and scripts, and just give me the content. That's what I'm here for. To author: Stop having XHR to load your images. Just load them. If I don't want them, I won't load them.

xd1936 7y ago
Yeah! Why can't every website be 12pt black-on-white Courier New?
- dmitriid 7y ago
  No. The question is: why can't every website be like gov.uk sites: with proper legibility, quick content, clearly designed and labeled for controls etc. [1-3] Or things like BBC's Global Experience Language [4] [1] Government Design Principles https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles [2] gov.uk Design System https://design-system.service.gov.uk https://design-system.service.gov.uk [3] Or even tings like "Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for numbers" https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-design-system-team-changed-the-input-type-for-numbers/ https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des... [4] https://bbc.github.io/gel/ https://bbc.github.io/gel/
  - sfifs 7y ago
    Because to some people (like me) the gov.uk website looks ugly and gives off a harsh "beware" vibe? Design is at least as much about achieving a certain emotional reaction as it is about legibility and clarity
    - dmitriid 7y ago
      That's a valid concern. Unfortunately, it looks like most of current design on the web tends to overdo emotional reactions to the detriment of legibility and clarity.
scotty79 7y ago
For me it was just ugly from first glace and I never warmed up to it. And convention of putting important button in the bottom right corner is still counterintuitive for me.
- kyleee 7y ago
  And overlapping actual content! Who thought that was a good idea? I'm consistently astounded by that one

xd1936 7y ago

Yeah! Why can't every website be 12pt black-on-white Courier New?

dmitriid 7y ago
No. The question is: why can't every website be like gov.uk sites: with proper legibility, quick content, clearly designed and labeled for controls etc. [1-3] Or things like BBC's Global Experience Language [4] [1] Government Design Principles https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles [2] gov.uk Design System https://design-system.service.gov.uk https://design-system.service.gov.uk [3] Or even tings like "Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for numbers" https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-design-system-team-changed-the-input-type-for-numbers/ https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des... [4] https://bbc.github.io/gel/ https://bbc.github.io/gel/
- sfifs 7y ago
  Because to some people (like me) the gov.uk website looks ugly and gives off a harsh "beware" vibe? Design is at least as much about achieving a certain emotional reaction as it is about legibility and clarity
  - dmitriid 7y ago
    That's a valid concern. Unfortunately, it looks like most of current design on the web tends to overdo emotional reactions to the detriment of legibility and clarity.

scotty79 7y ago

For me it was just ugly from first glace and I never warmed up to it. And convention of putting important button in the bottom right corner is still counterintuitive for me.

kyleee 7y ago
And overlapping actual content! Who thought that was a good idea? I'm consistently astounded by that one