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A problem here is the "adaptive" in Adaptive Cards. The idea was a unified "backend" for UIs in Bing, Teams, Copilot (the app formerly known as Cortana), Linked

A problem here is the "adaptive" in Adaptive Cards. The idea was a unified "backend" for UIs in Bing, Teams, Copilot (the app formerly known as Cortana), LinkedIn, and all sorts of other "hosts". The hosts all have their own, different design languages and so all show different designs of these cards. The examples given on its own webpage are truly "lowest common denominator" and expected to be further restyled by whatever hosting application is used. This design is kind of intentionally "HTML 1.0" because it is meant to be a low level "control framework" for design teams to build on top of, rather than a final design in and of itself. Not that that entirely excuses the web page from trying some better styles or better yet a "theme chooser" style approach to better illustrate how the base concepts are meant to be design-flexible by maybe actually showing design flexibility in action.

npunt 3y ago
Good point about the adaptivity. Yeah the omission of any examples with themes really shows the silo’d nature of Microsoft, and makes it look like the whole project was low effort and built by people who aren’t even designers and were just building to some abstract spec. If Microsoft really valued design they would build complete UI frameworks including visual style and then hand them to the respective teams (more wood behind fewer arrows), rather than making it a shared effort where no one team has made informed decisions about the whole thing end-to-end. I’m a bit spoiled right now because I’m deep in Apple’s HIG and it’s just on an entirely different plane of competence and thoughtfulness, whereas this looks like the little leagues.