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Absolutely! Unfortunately, the designers all seem to have 72" 8K professionally color-calibrated monitors and a $1000 mouse, and think if it works for them tha

Absolutely! Unfortunately, the designers all seem to have 72" 8K professionally color-calibrated monitors and a $1000 mouse, and think if it works for them that's good enough. I saw the start of this in the mid-2000s when the web trend was for grey-on-grey 8px fonts. I went to the designer and asked what the heck he was thinking and he showed me his screen; and yeah it was kinda legible there. Still bad design. Nowadays the trends are flat UI where you don't even know what's clickable/actionable, hidden things that only appear when you mouseover them, and on touchscreens, secret functions that only trigger if you swipe in just the right way with just the right number of fingers in just the right pattern. Design has just been getting progressively worse and worse ever since 2000/Windows XP.

KineticLensman 4y ago
> Unfortunately, the designers all seem to have 72" 8K professionally color-calibrated monitors and a $1000 mouse, and think if it works for them that's good enough. Years ago I came across a project developing software for use by soldiers (maps, messaging, that sort of thing). The devs made really tiny icons for the various map symbols. One day an actual soldier came in with a ruggedised terminal and asked the devs to demo the software on it, using combat gloves. Needless to say it was unusable and there was a great gnashing of teeth. The same project also gave rise to the best bit of user feedback I've ever seen. At an exercise where the software was being trialled, the commanding officer asked one of the soldiers what he thought of the software. He replied (in a northern English accent) "The fucking thing is fucking fucked, sir", and the trial was cancelled about ten minutes later.