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There are designers that appreciate the distinction between the way you design a desktop application vs a consumer website / mobile app. A lot of the design lit
by pjgalbraith 4y ago
There are designers that appreciate the distinction between the way you design a desktop application vs a consumer website / mobile app. A lot of the design literature and discussion seems to be focused on the latter these days.
A lot of things that desktop applications did are missing in most web apps; high information density, resizable panels, panel layouts (side by side etc...), keyboard shortcuts, embedded CLI's, and so on. It makes the user experience a lot worse for power users.
- sodality2 4y agoDesigners optimize for the common customer, which does _not_ want keyboard shortcuts or embedded CLI's etc.
- pjgalbraith 4y agoIt depends who that common customer is. If you're building a tool for industry and your users are electrical engineers, you would design it differently to a consumer mobile app is all I am saying.
- d0gbread 4y agoMost designers happen to serve mostly common customers but there are countless highly used industry specific web applications out there that are navigated primarily by shortcuts, and that software too, has designers. Designers that from my experience are often trying to make B2B, high data density solutions into fluffy UIs despite clear feedback that it's not what users want.