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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by jiofih on Sunday December 22, 2019 @06:32PM (#21860397)
> beauty trumps usability/ergonomics.

That can not possibly come from a UI designer. Usability is always first, and it’s possible to make it look good while maintaining a11y/usability properties.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by Stratoscope on Sunday December 22, 2019 @06:42PM (#21860441)
Oh, it could easily come from some of the UI designers I've worked with in the past who followed modern design fads, especially regarding text:

• Contrast is bad and hard on the eyes. The less contrast the better.

• Decorative fonts with font-weight: 300 are better than ordinary normal weight fonts designed for readability.

• It's better to have a small font with a lot of extra line-height instead of just making the font bigger.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by pathseeker on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:38AM (#21862276)
>Usability is always first

There are a lot of UI designers that missed that memo.

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