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My pet peeve is UX designers who design GUIs on large color-corrected desktop displays with no light reflecting on the screen, often with hairline fonts. Then t
by anilakar 3y ago
My pet peeve is UX designers who design GUIs on large color-corrected desktop displays with no light reflecting on the screen, often with hairline fonts. Then the application will be run on an embedded PC with a small low-contrast touchscreen at an awkward angle and sunlight behind the user's back.
- jwells89 3y agoConversely, I find it frustrating when UI designs targeting some of the most capable displays that have ever existed make little use of the incredible color, contrast, and sharpness offered by those displays, sticking strictly to vague monochrome glyphs and the occasional hint of color.
- RedShift1 3y agoThe low amount of color thing is a design fad, not because it's being designed for the "lowest common denominator" or something.
- jwells89 3y agoA big contributor to the popularity of flat design is how non-designers could make reasonably ok looking stuff with it, whereas more graphically rich style unavoidably requires the work of a skilled graphics artist (which a few developers happen to also be, but the number of people who are good at both is small).
- anilakar 3y agoThat's an issue with Material Design 3 though. Blame Google.
- RedShift1 3y agoYeah especially noticeable with fonts nowadays. I'm sure they look great on their high DPI monitor with perfect colors, not so much on a generic normal DPI display.