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Unpopular opinion: it seems a waste of time to have every company/organisation (re)design an entire visual language instead of using browser/OS standard control
by hcarvalhoalves 4y ago
Unpopular opinion: it seems a waste of time to have every company/organisation (re)design an entire visual language instead of using browser/OS standard controls, as well as having to (re)learn how to use each of those UIs as a user.
If designers at these companies create "design systems" to have consistent UIs, why not aim for the ultimate consistency in UIs – whatever is standard in my computer?
- n8cpdx 4y agoThere’s no such thing as browser/OS standard controls. Windows alone doesn’t have a standard UX across built-in apps. Then each browser has its own take on how to render native controls. Imagine trying to document your web app but it has 15 totally different UI appearances. And I can tell you from experience with xplat tech like Xamarin.Forms, write once run anywhere with Native control appearances is a disaster, even in relatively controlled environments (limited to iOS and Android).
- hcarvalhoalves 4y ago> There’s no such thing as browser/OS standard controls. There's no such thing as standard controls between different sites today either. But I'm certain there's more variation between sites than there's ever been between different browsers, and the variation between browsers is less likely to bother an individual user than the variation between every site in the whole web. This is a "there's no single standard for browsers, so let's make every site unique" argument.