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Honestly, I'd just once like to work with a designer that has heard of words longer than 5 letters. Every. Single. Darn. Design I get completely ignores the fa

by izacus 4y ago

Honestly, I'd just once like to work with a designer that has heard of words longer than 5 letters. Every. Single. Darn. Design I get completely ignores the fact that the texts inside them won't be built from nice little short words with EXACTLY the correct letter counts (especially when localized). Which results in shit UIs like one I've just seen on Android where (in my language) the button literally just says "Tap to..." and every single label on a button is truncated and doesn't finish a word.

astrospective 4y ago
When I was a tester first thing I’d do was fill every text box with Ws just to see what ran over. Good to remember as a dev now.
jstarfish 4y ago
> Honestly, I'd just once like to work with a designer that has heard of words longer than 5 letters. I blame lorem ipsum. And Latin.
pelagic_sky 4y ago
You need to work with designers who are used to supporting localization. Try making a UI using Deutsch and tell me about spacing issues. :D
kitsunesoba 4y ago
I agree, but would expand that to all parts of the design dealing with variable data, not just text (think thumbnails, avatars, etc). It’s too common for designs to that were beautiful on the canvas to fall apart once brought to life in the actual product. Some designers also don’t have a good grip on what’s actually feasible to engineer, adding in various details that in aggregate can bloat the time and effort required to build the design multiple times over.
userbinator 4y ago
I've seen many cases of the opposite, where despite plenty of room, text is inexplicably truncated to leave a huge amount of whitespace instead.
amatecha 4y ago
I always tell ppl to test their designs with German content. Usually the longest words, generally speaking, which breaks a very high % of "first passes" on designs.
Razengan 4y ago
> the button literally just says "Tap to..." *taps button* *Satan appears and claims my soul along with all my firstborns* It's good to have a little mystery and excitement in life!

by izacus 4y ago

astrospective 4y ago

When I was a tester first thing I’d do was fill every text box with Ws just to see what ran over. Good to remember as a dev now.

jstarfish 4y ago

> Honestly, I'd just once like to work with a designer that has heard of words longer than 5 letters. I blame lorem ipsum. And Latin.

pelagic_sky 4y ago

You need to work with designers who are used to supporting localization. Try making a UI using Deutsch and tell me about spacing issues. :D

kitsunesoba 4y ago

I agree, but would expand that to all parts of the design dealing with variable data, not just text (think thumbnails, avatars, etc). It’s too common for designs to that were beautiful on the canvas to fall apart once brought to life in the actual product. Some designers also don’t have a good grip on what’s actually feasible to engineer, adding in various details that in aggregate can bloat the time and effort required to build the design multiple times over.

userbinator 4y ago

I've seen many cases of the opposite, where despite plenty of room, text is inexplicably truncated to leave a huge amount of whitespace instead.

amatecha 4y ago

I always tell ppl to test their designs with German content. Usually the longest words, generally speaking, which breaks a very high % of "first passes" on designs.

Razengan 4y ago

> the button literally just says "Tap to..." *taps button* *Satan appears and claims my soul along with all my firstborns* It's good to have a little mystery and excitement in life!