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I’m new to HN. Why the inclination towards plainness? Is it because of performance or look or something else?
by wzwy 4y ago
I’m new to HN. Why the inclination towards plainness? Is it because of performance or look or something else?
- JohnDeHope 4y agoI think a lot of hackers in general, not just on Hacker News, feel like a lot of UI concerns are just bikeshedding.
- consumer451 4y agoWhat do you think might be good counter examples of this not being the case? Maybe Instagram, Discord... I was going to say Robinhood, but the free trading might have been the real differentiator?
- kaba0 4y agoI think both Instagram and Discord is quite bad on the UX-front on iOS. Strangely enough Microsoft’s Outlook is quite decent while it still looks a bit distinct. It is not generally true of google’s iOS apps that I assume started using Flutter and it feels from time to time (mostly not-smooth scrolling)
- WanderPanda 4y agoI think Instagram is actually quite fabulous considering how navigating stories has become muscle memory for hundreds of millions of people. And even after they have been around for some time it is still satisfying to tap that profile pic with the ring around it.