Comment on Why is UI design backsliding?

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No wait, let me go with your example ….

  You believe a laptop window is useful because you can run a browser with 11 headlines visible

  My first work “computer” was a vt100 terminal: black and white, 80 characters wide (on the newer models), by 24 rows. I could and did have a reader that could display as many as 20 headlines on a single screen, and I could scroll and drill down much faster. Sure the UI was shit, but it had the functionality to do the task.

  Don’t get me wrong, I fully appreciate the usability and power of a modern graphical UI and would never go back. However the point is designers focus too much on eye candy and “doing it because they can” over actual functionality. Can you understand my frustration that a modern 1900x1200 screen with millions of colors is really no more functional than a 40 year old black and white character based terminal. I get that designers want to show off their UI, but I want the UI to get out of my way and let me do more stuff. I want there to be more focus on compactness and efficiency. I want at least some attention paid to using resources wisely

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    *12 headlines, on a window that doesn’t even take up my whole screen, at 125% scaling, with a bookmark bar taking up space, and on a site rich with thumbnails.

    And fine. I’ll set it to standard 100% scaling, at a size where I can still comfortably work

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So you accept that you were mistaken, yeah? Clearly they’re usable.

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wow, you can fit one whole browser window on it … with headlines.

  Even back in the CRT days, I could have a couple windows, such as email, text, and IDE

  • my email program now has huge wasted ui space so might take up the whole laptop screen, leaving me thing. Email is not work, but something on the side for communication that shouldn’t interfere with work
  • my text chat is no longer a tiny rectangle in the corner but has huge wasted ui space and wants to take up an entire laptop screen. Even that is sometimes not enough. Text is not work, text is somethign on the side that shouldn’t interfere with work
  • my IDE has huge waste UI space and no longer fits any useable workspace on a laptop screen

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wow, you can fit one whole browser window on it … with headlines.

    I easily fit my browser on it (displaying a reasonably-sized page without content being cut off) with a file manager at the side, which is what I had open at the time.

    I don’t know what you wanted me to show you. 4 windows in a quadrant layout? That would be doable too, for most programs.

    I was refuting your point that laptops are unusable because of modern UX - clearly they aren’t.

    Even back in the CRT days, I could have a couple windows, such as email, text, and IDE

    I thought we were talking about laptops! Now you’re talking about a monitor on a desk?

    As I just showed you, you can have multiple windows open on a laptop. My laptop isn’t even large, it’s just a usual 14.something" laptop.

    You should go into your display settings and turn your scaling down, because it seems to me you’ve got scaling set at 200% or something lol

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• twei@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is that a Framework Laptop?

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Damn I wish, I’ve been eyeing those up for ages.

    It’s some Huawei laptop I found refurbished for a price I couldn’t turn down

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