[HN Gopher] The Dell Design System
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       The Dell Design System
        
       Author : skilled
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-04-06 07:36 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.delldesignsystem.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.delldesignsystem.com)
        
       | vicacid wrote:
       | There seem to be some weird UX issues with the site on my iPhone
       | (in Safari and Firefox Focus)... link text isn't clickable but
       | the arrows next them sometimes are, and the whitespace beyond the
       | arrow is; there seem to be hidden elements near link text that
       | are mailto:s; and some links just go to blank content wrapped in
       | the system header. Anyone else experiencing these too?
        
       | bradhe wrote:
       | Interesting subtext that their website is so painfully slow...
        
         | axus wrote:
         | Maybe they changed something, it seems fast at the moment.
         | Customizing a server from Dell has never had a great user
         | interface, but I appreciate that it has remained consistent
         | over the years and not gotten worse.
        
         | skilled wrote:
         | It looks like this was bumped to the front page. At the time of
         | publishing the site was working just fine.
        
       | hatmatrix wrote:
       | This appears to be for user interfaces rather than hardware. What
       | do they use this for that gives them a competitive edge?
        
       | IceDane wrote:
       | Who is this for, except dell? I don't see any reason why anyone
       | would adopt this outside of dell.
       | 
       | Using resources on coming up with a literal design system to
       | unify their look seems like a waste of time to me. You don't
       | really need an entire design system, just design guidelines,
       | which require a lot less effort.
       | 
       | As for the design itself... I don't know. Honestly there is not a
       | lot to comment on here. "White and flat" is what it is. They
       | don't seem to be able to use it to make their own site look good.
       | There are things overflowing, text is wrapping, etc, and somehow
       | the site is incredibly slow.
       | 
       | Content-wise it's also just full of circlerjerky UI/UX fluff and
       | nonsense. No one will ever care to read any of it because Dell
       | are not the MUI folks. No one cares what some consultant Dell
       | hired to do all this thinks about design.
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       | Oh yeah, there's also this great bit in their docs under
       | "TypeScript support":
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       | > If your application is using TypeScript to pull in the
       | JavaScript from our CDN, be sure to declare Dell Design System as
       | "any" in your index.ts file so that the imported DDS library
       | variable can be used inside your application.
        
         | bradhe wrote:
         | > Who is this for, except dell? I don't see any reason why
         | anyone would adopt this outside of dell.
         | 
         | Lots of companies use this as a passive hiring tool.
         | Demonstrates how forward thinking they are. They're
         | unfortunately burning all the good will with all the other
         | technical mistakes/issues.
        
         | danpalmer wrote:
         | > Who is this for, except dell? I don't see any reason why
         | anyone would adopt this outside of dell.
         | 
         | Just because it's public doesn't mean it's public for a reason.
         | 
         | It's possible that this is just a deliverable from a design
         | agency, put up on a domain to make it easily accessible, and
         | that there's no need or easy ability to put it behind a login.
        
       | grishka wrote:
       | None of the icons are aligned to the pixel grid. Argh.
        
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