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Aside from the article itself, I am confused by the title. Are they meaning to call themselves a "design legend"? I have not heard of them. Also, their blog si
by bugsy 15y ago
Aside from the article itself, I am confused by the title. Are they meaning to call themselves a "design legend"?
I have not heard of them. Also, their blog site layout is quite flawed. The text hits the left edge of the page at 1000px width. First, text should never hit the left side of the page. There should absolutely always be a margin of no less than 8px, but nearly always should be at least 0.25". Second, 1024px is more than half of a 1920px width screen and the site only looks proper at about 1280px width. This is too wide.
We (people using computers) have been forced into wide screen aspect ratio displays because of the need to show movies. Fine, that is the way it is. But this means that common use is to have two pages or tasks side by side. Full screen for tasks of reading produces lines that are much too wide to scan properly. Web pages should not require more than 960px for basic reading. The 960px includes the window scroll bars and frame if present, so the actual page text should be slightly smaller.
Do not design windows that expect 1024px or 1280px width, and do not design windows where the text crashes into the page edge when resized. Both these are very amateur hour mistakes. Therefore, it is inconceivable that the people at this firm are "design legends".
- mkr-hn 15y ago"But this means that common use is to have two pages or tasks side by side." Is this common? I've never known another person who does this outside a dual screen setup.
- bugsy 15y agoOK, let me ask some questions to calibrate your set up and see where you're coming from. 1. What is the width in inches of your display and how many pixels. 2. How many inches from your eyes to the screen in a normal working position? 3. Is your browser set to full screen width right now? 4. How many words per line are there across the screen in this page of hacker news on your set up?
- mkr-hn 15y agoHow does this answer the question? You said it was common. I asked if it was really that common. What is your source? It's an important question to ask if you're designing something because it determines how much work needs to be done. It's why I've considered adding j/k support to my blog. It wouldn't be worth the effort for most things other than a tech blog.
- Vivtek 15y agoI normally don't browse side-by-side, but it's fantastic for translation from scanned originals. (My two bits.) Way easier nowadays.
- pangram 15y agoReading is more comfortable when the text is not sized to the entire screen (cite below, with more references). Also, witness the number of window managers that offer ways to facilitate half-window views (i.e., XMonad, Cinch or SizeUp, Windows 7 window snapping, even Ctrl-X 3 in Emacs, so on and so forth). http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.asp http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLeng...
- mkr-hn 15y agoWhere is text sized across the entire screen? There is text across the screen in the linked blog, but it's broken into distinct blocks.
- jnotarstefano 15y ago>Aside from the article itself, I am confused by the title. Are they meaning to call themselves a "design legend"? I think they are calling Mike Kus a design legend, who taught them these six lessons.