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"In matters of taste, there can be no dispute." -dad
by cek 1y ago
"In matters of taste, there can be no dispute." -dad
- bravetraveler 1y ago"Challenge accepted." - Internet
- oofbey 1y agoThis isn’t just a matter of taste. The colors exist to aid in the task of coding. How well they do that is measurable.
- peaseagee 1y agoSure, but how well they do that for each individual person is, well, individual...
- nailer 1y agoSure, but if you measure that for a ten thousand people (controversially, ten thousand people that aren't already programmers may be better) you can get a good idea of what is efficient and what isn't.
- ethanrutherford 1y agoMaybe, but also maybe not. Ten thousand people giving ten thousand uncorrelated responses is also a possible, not unlikely result of such a test. There's also the question of whether or not your methodology for "measuring" what is effective and what isn't is even possible, let alone sufficient for a definitive conclusion.
- oofbey 1y agoAsserting that it's impossible or meaningless to measure the quality of a UI is to deny the entire field of UX research. Yes, it's subjective, but you can meaningfully measure the average across many humans. And that's exactly what you should do if you're trying to decide on a UX that will be used by many humans.
- peaseagee 1y agoRather than it being meaningless to measure the quality of a UI, I meant that even a UI that tests well generally might not be the best UI for a particular person.