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Designers don’t make things based on their experience with the product. They do research, evaluate multiple variations, get buy in from stakeholders and then
by true_religion 3y ago
Designers don’t make things based on their experience with the product.
They do research, evaluate multiple variations, get buy in from stakeholders and then AB test the final result.
It’s definitely not as simple as let’s do this because I saw it somewhere before.
- jiggawatts 3y agoIcons in the middle of a task bar is objectively, measurably less user-friendly than left aligned icons. With the standard Windows layout users can develop “muscle memory”, especially for the bottom left corner of the screen — which is very easy to hit with a mouse because the edges of the screen “trap” the cursor. With middle aligned icons, every new app shifts the existing icons. Also there is no icon in an easy to hit location. Windows 11 has some other design elements that broke Microsoft’s own integrations. As a random example: “Open with VS Code” and “Terminal here” are hidden submenus now.