Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen...
by mrhappyunhappy on Saturday November 17, 2018 @06:58AM
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I am surprised that this is the current state of UI, holy shit. Does any techie care about their UI or “good enough” is where the care ends? You couldn’t pay me to look at that all day.
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Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen...
by dymk on Saturday November 17, 2018 @10:42PM
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Making a good UI requires that you have some sort of central list of guiding UI principles, and the wherewithal and authority to enforce it.
That means you need a team to:
- Come up with a detailed set of UI principles and guidelines
- Test that they're sane
- Enforce them across the entire system
Steps one and two require user interface experts, who're probably already getting paid good money to do principle UI design at Apple or Microsoft.
Open source without a backing company will have a particularly hard time with step three, because these projects tend to be communal and at least a little fragmented/disjoint by nature.
Mainly you just need money.