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A bit off topic (not related to street design in any way): to me the "interface designed by engineers" looks much better than the one made by UX designers. Ok,
by ale42 5y ago
A bit off topic (not related to street design in any way): to me the "interface designed by engineers" looks much better than the one made by UX designers. Ok, it doesn't actually _look_ better from a purely aesthetical point of view, but you can basically do everything with it, whereas the other one uses a huge amount of space on the screen, probably uses 4x more energy for rendering, and the amount of possible interaction is very low.
While the engineer-designed UI looks complex and might make users afraid (at least at a first glance), it empowers them to do what they want. The second one has someone else taking most decisions (whence almost no options), which is a scary trend in current UI/UX/applications design. People should stop thinking that users are stupid.
- lelandfe 5y agoHigh information density is not a priority for most interfaces. While I also don’t particularly like the second example in this article, separating controls across panes, using more screen real estate, and adding hierarchy to presentation are all good things; and don’t imply the user is dumb. I like things I can intuit - who doesn’t?