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It wasn’t AI that brought us Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards, nor the 10,000,000 ••• menus that have infested every webapp in the past 10 yea
by xp84 6mo ago
It wasn’t AI that brought us Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards, nor the 10,000,000 ••• menus that have infested every webapp in the past 10 years as an alternative to thoughtful UI design. We humans made everything shitty before we made AI.
- befictious 6mo agoGood thing we trained our fortune teller calculators on all that historic shittiness!
- coldtea 6mo agoGuns and bombs also didn't create war. But they did made it way more lethal.
- iugtmkbdfil834 6mo agoMaybe, but at least the 10,000,000 options were there instead deemed that they are not to be used by those pesky users. And now its they are not just hidden. They are simply not there.
- drivers99 6mo ago> Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards It's a tangential point, but I turned on System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Increase Contrast (the on/off option, not Display Contrast) and now at least the windows are outlined sharply.
- ozzymuppet 6mo agoOMG this is wonderful! Thank you.
- isityettime 6mo agoA lot of people who think of themselves as able-bodied never think to poke around in the Accessibility sections of their settings menus. But it turns out that accessibility options are for everyone; people should really think of and evaluate them as first class tools more often
- pseudohadamard 6mo agoThey really should just have a single checkbox, "Prioritise usability over wank", and leave it at that.
- drivers99 6mo agoThat's an interesting idea: if you're thinking of having an accessibility option, consider just making it the default.
- theK 6mo agoOr,are we just getting older and these things suddenly matter?
- oneeyedpigeon 6mo agoA button looking like a button isn't an age (of the reader) thing.
- usrnm 6mo agoOf course it is. What should a button on a screen look like, after all, it has absolutely nothing to do with a large mechanical button from the 80s the old designs tried to emulate. In fact, such buttons are becoming rare even in the physical world, the younger generation is more and more accustomed to touch buttons for operating all kinds of machinery around them. So "like a button" is very much an age thing
- rodw 6mo agoLooking like a "touch button" is still looking like a button. Some indication that an element is tappable is still useful.
- oneeyedpigeon 6mo agoGame consoles are still pretty popular, I don't think people are going to forget what real buttons are for at least another couple of generations.
- dylan604 6mo agoThe "Differentiate wihout color" is one I like. All of the on/off sliders now have a 1 or 0 to indicate on/off
- layla5alive 6mo agoFunny, didn't iOS have that like 15 years ago, before they probably removed it?
- jayd16 6mo agoWhat is it about AI where the discussion is immediately derailed with whataboutism? Like, are these actually good faith comments? What's the point of bringing up "well some other bad stuff already existed"?
- xp84 6mo agoIt’s not whataboutism, I’m simply challenging the notion that AI caused this. UI has been in the toilet and worsening for 15 years. A combination of trend (minimalism cult masquerading as sophistication), pragmatic trimming down of things to work on tiny screens, dumbing down things in an attempt to reduce complexity, and of course dark patterns, to push users toward profitable actions (like clicking ads or continued ‘engagement’) and away from costly ones (finding support, for instance).