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>UI that gets out the way. This is the biggest problem with the current fad in web design. Designers are designing for their own sense of "look what I can do"
by papsosouid 14y ago
>UI that gets out the way.
This is the biggest problem with the current fad in web design. Designers are designing for their own sense of "look what I can do" instead of for users. People need to stop designing UIs for the sake of seeing how much crap they can stuff in front of my face and start designing UIs to be used.
- purplelobster 14y agoBut the current 'fad' is exactly what you're talking about: flat, minimalist, getting out of the way? The "stuff as much crap as possible" design feels a bit 2002 right now. Personally I hope it stays minimalist.
- sesqu 14y agoPersonally I hate the minimalist fad, and this is speaking as a minimalist. I want a UI that shows me information I need and exposes actions I can take. That means (relative) timestamps and quote buttons, not client devices and administration buttons. It definitely does not mean the style previously known as Metro. If there's whitespace on the screen, stick something there that I will need eventually but wouldn't find without using it daily.
- papsosouid 14y ago>But the current 'fad' is exactly what you're talking about: flat, minimalist, getting out of the way? I only see that for the online version of a brochure. "This is us, buy our thing". There can't really be much of a user interface for those, since there's not much to do, and currently they are all identical ugly bootstrap things with obnoxious javascript scrolling instead of pages. But actual web apps, where there has to be a user interface to let you interact with things I see mostly a "throw everything on there and who cares if it is usable" approach.