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> Most young devs I speak to stare blankly at me when I enquire about GUI standards and usability best-practices. They are now foreign concepts to a lot of deve
by dccoolgai 5y ago
> Most young devs I speak to stare blankly at me when I enquire about GUI standards and usability best-practices. They are now foreign concepts to a lot of developers.
Was there ever really a time when this was de rigeur? I certainly feel it should be, but I've always felt alone having an intense interest in this as a dev.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoTrue but the old toolkits did most of that kind of thing for free. You had to do work to break conventions. With web you and your chosen set of libs have to work to meet them. One model is better. ;-)
- feifan 5y agoThere are dozens of us![0] I can't really speak to the first question, but I know of a small handful of people (who are developers or software-adjacent) who are deeply familiar with nuanced GUI details and can consciously talk about them. Plausibly, many people have historically not noticed many of these details, but got them for free when most software was built with native controls … and because they were rarely noticed, they rarely get explicitly specced for UIs built on less-robust primitives. [^0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/36twsr/what_is_the_origin_of_the_there_are_literally/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/36twsr/what_i...