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After I read through his tirades I think he came out poorer for the wear. Much of his explanations are simply: blah blah we've done this for a long time blah bl
by alaskamiller 18y ago
After I read through his tirades I think he came out poorer for the wear. Much of his explanations are simply: blah blah we've done this for a long time blah blah. It's also clear he's opting for what he thinks is experience over Apple iPhone HIG.
The most glaring mistake he made was the background color. I mean seriously did everybody in the room while looking at this say "yeah, 33FFFF is the way to go!"
- thorax 18y agoIt's interesting to see how much a primary color (cyan in this case) affects people's initial reaction to things. I think if the UI looked more like this when they first saw it, no one would have really given it much thought: http://screencast.com/t/NpgW6YeM http://screencast.com/t/NpgW6YeM It just shows that a little bad color can go a long way. We have this a lot with our startup, too-- some people simply can't stand the color scheme we chose for our first beta. It's pretty bad, but memorable. We're working on making things "nice-looking but memorable" instead.
- Zev 18y agoIf that image was the UI, people might not have objected as much. There's no horrible color coordinating that was placed in the real UI, which is a major complaint. Also, might just be me, but those colors look much better inverted though. Short of the red button label. But that's a lot smaller of a problem then the entire UI having bad color coordination.
- jamesjyu 18y agoBad UX design can't hide behind a good color scheme. The fundamental flaws are still there.