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I agree that most of them are obvious. I don't agree that bad design is because of laziness. There are many reasons for bad design and most of the time I'll onl
by emsy 11y ago
I agree that most of them are obvious. I don't agree that bad design is because of laziness. There are many reasons for bad design and most of the time I'll only find one or two of the "dont's" in a given app, but this will ruin my experience. Case in point: I can't even count the number of HN readers I deleted because they didn't display the content without vertical and horizontal scrollbars or had really small text. Everything else was fine though.
- shogun21 11y agoGood design is hard. It takes research and effort, and often has to go through many iterations. I say it's due to laziness because if the developers had the time, they would adjust the text and scrollbars for a better experience.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoThere's such a thing as just-in-time design, where you only put as much effort (money) into it as it deserved. All rom-upgrade utilities look like suck, because, well, you only use them once and they're free. And so on.
- rwallace 11y agoI don't think the reason is any need for research. There have been quite a few occasions when I've made suggestions regarding how to fix obvious, major flaws. I've stopped bothering, because the response in all cases has been - not "sorry, we don't have time to implement the fix," which would be entirely forgivable, but some polite variant of "no, this is our product not yours, so we'll do things the way we want, not the way you want, so get lost." On the bright side, that means if you are willing to set ego aside, you gain an immediate and substantial advantage over the competition.