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My relatively recent pet peeve has been ‘UX designers’ (in quotes because I respect the discipline and the many competent practitioners but refer here to the ch
by jarym 6y ago
My relatively recent pet peeve has been ‘UX designers’ (in quotes because I respect the discipline and the many competent practitioners but refer here to the charlatans) that push their narrowly defined views of ‘form’, ‘simplicity’ or ‘minimalism’ to the extent that the end result compromises the essential functionality required by a user base.
I cannot wait for these people to leave the industry and hopefully take their dogma with them. They’re the rebirth of the same mindset that led to the ‘eyeballs are all that matter’ era of the web in the early 90s.
- nxpnsv 6y agoI guess audience is key here. Don't optimize for any user, optimize for the people actually on the site.
- friendlybus 6y agoI agree with your complaints, but would like to save 'form' 'simplicity' and 'minimalism' from the heaping tire fire that is the pubmed changes. Apple's design philosophy takes good parts of those three concepts and implements them well. Moving around essential functionality can be required in specific cases. Maximalism can be just as poorly made.