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As the owner of a design firm, and a designer for UI for the past ten years, I think this article misses the point. Grids are a means to an end. That end is fun
by CubicleNinjas 15y ago
As the owner of a design firm, and a designer for UI for the past ten years, I think this article misses the point. Grids are a means to an end. That end is functional and visually pleasing usability.
The samples in this article show less functional, less visually pleasing UIs.
- eropple 15y agoAgreed. The author's purported "better" designs are visually unappealing, really very cluttered, and seem to miss the point (re: menu items being cut off at the bottom, etc.). The author has said in another HN post that "it's my job to look at things others don't look at"--even setting aside the holier-than-thou sort of tone that that evokes, this sort of "it doesn't line up with the grid" complaint reminds me of those obnoxious "unsolicited redesigns" of websites you see hit HN once in a while--the ones that don't take into account critical aspects of why things are done the way they're done.