• undetermined@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Those are very valid points, but the complete lack of UI and UX design doesn’t make it the best. Just some basic things will suffice.

    • less redundant wording
    • critical info formatted to be on the same visual line
    • some simple icons added which roughly represent the info
    • a basic design (header, centered box with info, easy on the eyes colors)
    • basic responsiveness to support most devices
    • bigger font sizes for the critical info could further help visually impaired people

    That would make the info quickly and easily digestible, even at a glance, for most people on most devices.

    I get the point, but I wanted to show that well designed frontends make using the web easier for people with human-tailored designs. Of course, over-the-top artsy visuals, dark patterns, defiant handling of cookie policies, invasive data collection and corporations doing corporate stuff make the web annoying, difficult and unsave to use for humans. I think we need to differentiate between those.

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      1 year ago

      basic responsiveness to support most devices

      Dude, that is the mother of responiveness. It literally supports all the devices.

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      1 year ago

      Entirely true.

      I’m currently working on a little project that’s interesting to me (a low-spoiler walkthrough system for adventure games) and after a lot of back and forth, I decided to cut all of JS out of the picture. Just get rid of all of it, and do good old 90s server-side rendered HTML with modern CSS placed on top of it.

      And that’s, honestly, a joy. The first draft of a page looks like the first screenshot, then you add some semantic classes to the html and throw some simple CSS at it and it looks acceptably neat. And I could get rid of so much janky toolchain I just fail to understand.