Re: Re: Bleach Time!
By: Elf to Nightfox on Fri Mar 26 2021 09:41 pm
Ni>> Not only that, but since Windows 8, I think the whole Windows UI has
Ni>> looked fairly flat and monotone since then. It's basically the same
El> This design trend drives me crazy!! They call it "getting the interface
El> out of your way," or some other such nonsense. It's called lazy
El> development. It's poor design. You cannot get the "interface" out of our
El> way, we NEED something to INTERFACE us with the SYSTEM. That is what it is
El> for. Since we cannot communicate with and control our computers with our
El> thoughts yet (not to the degree necessary to do work in today's world) we
El> need those buttons to look like buttons. We need borders around those
El> borders. We need depth and dinstinction between one application and
Yep. We need to be able to clearly see the elements of the user interface, and
I think it should look good too.
El> example I encountered in web design. I spent 30 minutes one day looking
El> for a field on a form and could not find it. Why? There was no field
El> border of any kind around it. There was just text on the screen and not
El> until you clicked on the non- highlighted text did a faint borde show up
El> revealing it *might* be a field!
That's fairly bad design.
El> Our computer screens are not small phone screens and our phones cannot
El> do all our computers can as efficiently as our computers can. Ugh.
I think even phone interfaces used to look better than they do - iPhone, iPod To
uch, and Android from around 2007-2010 or so, I think looked better than they do
today.
Nightfox
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