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Who is this for, except dell? I don't see any reason why anyone would adopt this outside of dell. Using resources on coming up with a literal design system to
by IceDane 5y ago
Who is this for, except dell? I don't see any reason why anyone would adopt this outside of dell.
Using resources on coming up with a literal design system to unify their look seems like a waste of time to me. You don't really need an entire design system, just design guidelines, which require a lot less effort.
As for the design itself... I don't know. Honestly there is not a lot to comment on here. "White and flat" is what it is. They don't seem to be able to use it to make their own site look good. There are things overflowing, text is wrapping, etc, and somehow the site is incredibly slow.
Content-wise it's also just full of circlerjerky UI/UX fluff and nonsense. No one will ever care to read any of it because Dell are not the MUI folks. No one cares what some consultant Dell hired to do all this thinks about design.
Oh yeah, there's also this great bit in their docs under "TypeScript support":
> If your application is using TypeScript to pull in the JavaScript from our CDN, be sure to declare Dell Design System as "any" in your index.ts file so that the imported DDS library variable can be used inside your application.
- bradhe 5y ago> Who is this for, except dell? I don't see any reason why anyone would adopt this outside of dell. Lots of companies use this as a passive hiring tool. Demonstrates how forward thinking they are. They're unfortunately burning all the good will with all the other technical mistakes/issues.
- danpalmer 5y ago> Who is this for, except dell? I don't see any reason why anyone would adopt this outside of dell. Just because it's public doesn't mean it's public for a reason. It's possible that this is just a deliverable from a design agency, put up on a domain to make it easily accessible, and that there's no need or easy ability to put it behind a login.