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I like it. Good user experience isn't about dogmatically sticking to "text only", but about making a useful, understandable, navigable site. Emojis seem to he
by xnx 4mo ago
I like it.
Good user experience isn't about dogmatically sticking to "text only", but about making a useful, understandable, navigable site.
Emojis seem to help section the dozens of links on the homepage without adding unnecessary visual distraction or page payload.
- argee 4mo ago> unnecessary visual distraction I think I personally see emojis used in this manner as unnecessary visual distraction, because it detracts from whatever self-consistent design system you had going on (when used for high visibility items like front page headings). Emojis don't even render the same on every platform, so its a move that dilutes your design language. Even if it's a useful visual guide, I would wager nine times out of ten you'd be better off with a self-consistent icon set...depending on what you're going for, of course.
- OkayPhysicist 4mo agoThe page uses 'font-family: sans-serif'. They've already given up on any control over what the page looks like. They leave it up to the browser, which, IMO, more sites should do.
- xnx 4mo agoSites having individual "design language" is part of the problem that got us to the current balkanized web.
- krapp 4mo agoIt isn't a problem. Site authors being able to choose their own design is fundamental to the web, it is as much a platform for personal creative expression as it is information. Not everything has to look like a whitepaper.
- jey 4mo ago> Emojis don't even render the same on every platform This is a feature, not a bug. That it's using your platform-specific emojis makes it easier to scan, since it's the ideograms you are already accustomed to. Much faster to scan familiar symbols than to read each section heading serially.