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Absolutely. The work of user experience research has a long history and is very important. What is new is every single "app" (website) inventing their own entir
by xnx 2y ago
Absolutely. The work of user experience research has a long history and is very important. What is new is every single "app" (website) inventing their own entire conventions and "language". This still happened with desktop apps, but it was rare typically limited to the largest players (Microsoft, Adobe). You can do a tremendous amount with basic, bog-standard, GUI widgets if you apply them well.
- anon7000 2y agoPart of the problem is that we just don’t have a std lib, or std UI framework for the web. In both Windows and Mac, the basic UI happy path involves using the pre-built libraries and UI components these companies created to make apps somewhat consistent. There is nothing like that for the web — which is part of what the article gets at.
- Aeolun 2y agoI mean, we do? There’s Tailwind now, and there was a time when 50% of the web was bootstrap or wordpress.
- Groxx 2y agoQuite a few of them, yeah. jQuery UI was a huge, massively widespread thing for a while too. People still do their own things of course. Like how tons of Windows apps build completely custom stuff (e.g. Winamp). Or very nearly every single videogame.