Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces

Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by branislav on Saturday August 04, 2018 @09:21AM (#17686759)

I agree with the article in that designers can be too focused on the shiny and non-functional aspects of interfaces.

Personally I would treat design as being purely about function and anything superficial is about aesthetics.

But I think the author is throwing the baby out with the bathwater by wanting to restrict all animations. Fast, subtle animations, especially in the form of transitions between states/screens are extremely important for keeping the user informed about where they are in the context of the system.

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Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by collinmanderson on Saturday August 04, 2018 @09:30AM (#17686783)

I also think animations are not what’s making slack take so long to load.

I don’t think it would load any faster without the animations.

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