Subj : Re: Bleach Time!
To   : Elf
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Mar 27 2021 14:16:50

  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 Touch, and Android from around 2007-2010 or so, I think looked better than they do today.

Nightfox

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