What a skin - am I odd?
I just checked out loadUI 2.0 . I really dislike this skin. Charcoal text on grey canvas which is not much lighter. Is this stylish or stupid? I put my glasses on and try to better angle my laptop lid, but damned I can't read these menu items.
Menu items? Well, not sure whether menu is the right term for the disposal of pickers, sliders and drag & drop areas around the window. To me this is more like scrambled, far away from clear 20/20 vision. I like well-known structures. Yes, this list of terms close to the upper edge, where the right-most one is always "Help" and you know already for sure that Help > About will display the version. Without looking up any key list you know F1 will bring up the help function...
Am I odd? Maybe. I searched the forum entries and didn't find any such complaint. There is a current trend of fancy styles in UX design as the current UX controls libraries facilitate it and make it so easy to put the showy stuff together. There is hope that this phase will not last long. Other arts and crafts went through a similar evolution. They all needed to learn the wisdom of "form follows function".
To me the beauty of a software is in its architecture, its inner elegance and clarity, which is so hard to find; but when you find it, it makes the product intuitive, robust, maintainable and often even fast at the same time. To me the fancy skin is no beauty. Am I odd?
Menu items? Well, not sure whether menu is the right term for the disposal of pickers, sliders and drag & drop areas around the window. To me this is more like scrambled, far away from clear 20/20 vision. I like well-known structures. Yes, this list of terms close to the upper edge, where the right-most one is always "Help" and you know already for sure that Help > About will display the version. Without looking up any key list you know F1 will bring up the help function...
Am I odd? Maybe. I searched the forum entries and didn't find any such complaint. There is a current trend of fancy styles in UX design as the current UX controls libraries facilitate it and make it so easy to put the showy stuff together. There is hope that this phase will not last long. Other arts and crafts went through a similar evolution. They all needed to learn the wisdom of "form follows function".
To me the beauty of a software is in its architecture, its inner elegance and clarity, which is so hard to find; but when you find it, it makes the product intuitive, robust, maintainable and often even fast at the same time. To me the fancy skin is no beauty. Am I odd?