IBM Plex – A new typeface

Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by mlazos on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:47PM (#16702306)

This reminded me exactly of that Dropbox design page at dropbox.design - it was the exact same frustrating experience. If this is a trend please make it stop.

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by jordaniusrex on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:08AM (#16704626)

Same agency http://www.xxix.co/

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by practice9 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:13AM (#16705399)

I wonder how the decision process went.

Perhaps something along the lines: "Wow, look at that ugly page from Dropbox. My eyes hurt! Let's make ours even uglier!"

It's all about "Designer experience", not "User Experience" in this case (i.e. trying to be edgy for the sake of it, in order to impress your designer / PM peers)

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by madspindel on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:08AM (#16705843)

Is this a joke? I visited the website on my phone and it's horrible broken with "cards" all over the place.

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by scoggs on Thursday March 29, 2018 @09:59AM (#16707101)

https://twitter.com/richlyons_/status/978449888655556613

I'm unsure to be honest.

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by untangle on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:14AM (#16706329)

Their website UX is far worse than IBM Plex. How can it be?

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by chao- on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:17PM (#16702539)

For what it's worth, and setting aside opinions on the design itself, at least https://dropbox.design/ never steals focus or disables core navigation keys in frustrating, alternating ways.

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by saberworks on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:24PM (#16702586)

I don't understand this comment. That page removes the ability to scroll via pageup/down, via arrow keys, via spacebar, and via a scroll-bar on the right (even when force-enabled via operating system settings). It appears that the only way to scroll is via mouse wheel. How is that not disabling core navigation in a frustrating way?

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by chao- on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:27PM (#16702610)

Interesting. They all work fine for me. I wonder why?

I have tested on Firefox 59 and Chrome 65 in Linux.

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by CoderPuppy on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:53PM (#16702785)

For me they didn't work until I clicked in the page. Chrome 60 and Firefox 58 on Linux.

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by nawgszy on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @08:00PM (#16703280)

Doesn't that just mean your browser window didn't have focus? I can scroll on apps in the background with scroll wheel but not arrow keys, etc.. That's just an OS thing

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by CoderPuppy on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @08:58PM (#16703641)

No, the window and tab were focused. It would be that the scrollable element wasn't focused.

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by lostsock on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:54PM (#16702787)

Also all worked for me in Chrome 65 on Windows.

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Re:IBM Plex – A new typeface by neotek on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:39AM (#16704994)

>dropbox.design

This is fucking mental, seriously.

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