I got redirected once. Was once too often. For some reason the current process seems to think that content comes last, and fancy headers, deasign and pages mean more. They don't. The beta page wasted a ton of space, showed me less content, was less clear and more invasive. I did not like it, did not enjoy it.
Why is it somehow we have ended up with people who are making things like Slashdot beta, Microsoft Metro, the new IOS, Gnome. A bunch of people who came out of the worst design schools ever? A bad decad
Why is it somehow we have ended up with people who are making things like Slashdot beta, Microsoft Metro, the new IOS, Gnome. A bunch of people who came out of the worst design schools ever?
Frankly, they probably came from very good design schools, but the organization behind those projects made 1 critical error: They put design before functionality. (I use the word design as meaning only graphical design, not engineering design).
A good design starts off with a set of boundary conditions, and I think that those were not defined according to the wishlist of the most registered users, for example because slashdot doesn't know its users, or because it was just defined too loosely.
Don't like Beta. (Score:5, Insightful)
I got redirected once. Was once too often. For some reason the current process seems to think that content comes last, and fancy headers, deasign and pages mean more. They don't. The beta page wasted a ton of space, showed me less content, was less clear and more invasive. I did not like it, did not enjoy it.
Why is it somehow we have ended up with people who are making things like Slashdot beta, Microsoft Metro, the new IOS, Gnome. A bunch of people who came out of the worst design schools ever? A bad decad
Re:Don't like Beta. (Score:3)
Why is it somehow we have ended up with people who are making things like Slashdot beta, Microsoft Metro, the new IOS, Gnome. A bunch of people who came out of the worst design schools ever?
Frankly, they probably came from very good design schools, but the organization behind those projects made 1 critical error: They put design before functionality. (I use the word design as meaning only graphical design, not engineering design).
A good design starts off with a set of boundary conditions, and I think that those were not defined according to the wishlist of the most registered users, for example because slashdot doesn't know its users, or because it was just defined too loosely.