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> It does feel like modern designs are treating everyone like children. UIs have immense spacing and big fonts, icons always accompany text, company branding te
by dolebirchwood 1y ago
> It does feel like modern designs are treating everyone like children. UIs have immense spacing and big fonts, icons always accompany text, company branding tends to have strong bold contrasty colors.
While those might all be things 7-year-old children appreciate, they are also things my 70-year-old parents appreciate.
- myaccountonhn 1y agoYeah I intentionally said it a bit provocatively, but I don't necessarily think it is bad. I personally increase the font sizes on my phone as well. Though while some designs are necessary for accessiblity, some design decisions seem to be cultural preferences: Japanese UIs tend to be information dense, and they tend to prefer it whereas some westerners would probably scream if they had to interact with it.
- jjani 1y agoThere should be an age of "supermajority" where a bunch of rights revert to being similar to the age of minority. And yes, I too have parents of that age, and yes, they're still mentally sharp.
- delichon 1y agoWhich of my rights do you want to take away without caring if I'm impaired or not?
- jjani 1y agoThe rights of minors are taken away without caring if they're impaired or not. At completely different ages across different territories, showing how it's comparably arbitrary if so. Voting should be weighted compared to average remaining life expectancy, for one.
- autoexec 1y agoAll minors are impaired to some degree since their brains are still developing. https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/FFF-Guide/The-Teen-Brain-Behavior-Problem-Solving-and-Decision-Making-095.aspx https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Fam...