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 decade at the schools? We just got unlucky?
I like slashdot, and have been around for a long time. But I'm not your damn plaything. Mess with the site, content and my usage - be warned, I can go away. So can others.
UX is a profession of people whose sole purpose in life is to reduce the usability of any software product they come across. Their favorite changes are using 16 pt fonts, adding as much border / whitespace as possible, and triple spacing everything. They also love to have heaps of steaming piles of shite javascript to ensure that there is a 500-800ms delay when triggering a scroll on the mouse-wheel (quad-core).
UX people: learn what PPI means, and set your monitors appropriately -- then
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.
This shit gets designed because most people (e.g. non-slashdotters) are idiots and idiots like shiny. Its the same reason for dumb and pretty news anchors.
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 decade at the schools? We just got unlucky?
For every decade like the 60's or 70's, there must be a decade like the 80s (ok, 83-93) where design is just blrgld.
I hear ya. This new page layout confines the article and comments to literally 45% of the width of my screen. There are giant gray bars on both sides that waste space, and a giant white bar on the right that wastes even more space. The giant white bar doesn't even have anything in it more than about 10% of the way down the page, not even ads, it's literally just wasted real estate in my browser. And the stuff that's on the 10% that actually has stuff mostly isn't even stuff I'm interested in seeing. I don't
The new "high fasion" design technique is to carefully observe which features your users use most, and then take those features away, while telling them that they're bad users for wanting that, and any proper user knows that it's just clutter that is in the way of your grand "vision". (This is the tactic the gnome devs are using to chase away all of their users, and from the looks of/. beta, it's what's going on here too.)
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
- Brian Kernighan
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 decade at the schools? We just got unlucky?
I like slashdot, and have been around for a long time. But I'm not your damn plaything. Mess with the site, content and my usage - be warned, I can go away. So can others.
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In two letters: UX
UX is a profession of people whose sole purpose in life is to reduce the usability of any software product they come across. Their favorite changes are using 16 pt fonts, adding as much border / whitespace as possible, and triple spacing everything. They also love to have heaps of steaming piles of shite javascript to ensure that there is a 500-800ms delay when triggering a scroll on the mouse-wheel (quad-core).
UX people: learn what PPI means, and set your monitors appropriately -- then
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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.
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This shit gets designed because most people (e.g. non-slashdotters) are idiots and idiots like shiny. Its the same reason for dumb and pretty news anchors.
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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 decade at the schools? We just got unlucky?
For every decade like the 60's or 70's, there must be a decade like the 80s (ok, 83-93) where design is just blrgld.
Seconded (Score:0)
I hear ya. This new page layout confines the article and comments to literally 45% of the width of my screen. There are giant gray bars on both sides that waste space, and a giant white bar on the right that wastes even more space. The giant white bar doesn't even have anything in it more than about 10% of the way down the page, not even ads, it's literally just wasted real estate in my browser. And the stuff that's on the 10% that actually has stuff mostly isn't even stuff I'm interested in seeing. I don't
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The new "high fasion" design technique is to carefully observe which features your users use most, and then take those features away, while telling them that they're bad users for wanting that, and any proper user knows that it's just clutter that is in the way of your grand "vision". (This is the tactic the gnome devs are using to chase away all of their users, and from the looks of /. beta, it's what's going on here too.)