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Plenty of UI designers just follow trends because everyone just copies the current popular things, especially when their competition starts doing it too. They d
by dmix 2y ago
Plenty of UI designers just follow trends because everyone just copies the current popular things, especially when their competition starts doing it too. They don't really put a ton of thought into it or don't do it as part of a wider cohesive strategy where it makes sense for what they are building.
Really shows the power of UI designers at big organizations like Apple, Google, and Tesla.
- Moru 2y agoAs a small developer, if you don't follow the big ones, watch your reviews plumet with comments like "Ugly UI!", "Old design!".
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoThat "flat everything" design trend of 10-15 years ago was sooooo annoying. And it was so apparent that extremely little thought about the usability of it was considered once the trend gained momentum. I remember when Android (don't recall exactly which release) replaced their standard back, home and menu buttons with just a triangle, square and circle. It was so bizarre. I felt like a toddler playing with a "fit the blocks into the different shaped holes" toy.
- amatecha 2y ago"Was"? flat UI is still here and it's horrible. It drives me crazy having to guess that a featureless piece of text might be a button because its position in a window vaguely suggests it may be a button and not just a random piece of floating text. So much subtle information is just gone from modern UIs.