Creativity is bad for UI design (2018)

Re:Creativity is bad for UI design (2018) by freshbagels on Sunday October 20, 2019 @12:58AM (#21302367)

"Creativity is bad for UI design"

Way to misdiagnose. It's wholly possible to have a UI that is both creative and easy to use.

Most of the bad UIs and UXs I've seen have been the result of a lack of critical thinking and/or user empathy.

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Re:Creativity is bad for UI design (2018) by hinkley on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:12AM (#21302539)

Overt cleverness is jarring and irritating. I think that’s the sort of creativity they’re talking about.

When I was starting as a developer I got a lot of pushback on some of the creative things I did and ended up redirecting a lot of that energy to reliability concerns, including human factors issues (human errors cause bugs). At this point I take - and use - “clever” as an epithet.

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Re:Creativity is bad for UI design (2018) by anoncake on Sunday October 20, 2019 @05:47AM (#21303168)

Creatively solving problems is good. Creatively doing things differently just to stand out is not (in UX at least).

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