I just accidentally clicked the “clear all” on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks
Anyway, what are your unpopular UI opinions?
Colorblind people exist and should be able to use the site. At least, based on my real experience, this must be an unpopular opinion amongst UI folks glares
This is not only about colorblinds. Accessible technology on general is horrible.
That’s something I appreciate about the WordPress “block editor”; it tells you when you’ve changed colors in a way that is hard to read for some people. I wish more design software did that automatically.
Modern browsers have tools for this built in. Lack of accessibility is a choice.
It’s usually an oversight.
The designers are literally colorblind-blind.
Apologies beforehand for the soap-boxing, but this is something I’m rather passionate about.
So I work as a full-stack developer, with a penchant for UI/UX and front-end, and I have a particular passion for accessibility. The web is a fantastic place for connecting and empowering people, but I believe it can’t be truly open and democratised without everyone having equal access to it.
The way I see it, it’s your job as a designer to make your design accessible. There’s obviously more to it, someone working purely with design can’t do all the heavy lifting when optimising for screen readers and such, but I view it rather like an architect ignoring accessibility in their buildings, or a chef ignoring allergies. Can you do it? Absolutely. Are there good excuses for it? I don’t think so.
Personally I only have an auditory processing disorder, and the only accessibility tool I really use is subtitles. The thing is being able-bodied is not necessarily a permanent state, and anyone could go from able to disabled in the blink of an eye. Thus we all benefit from having accessible design in our day to day lives.
Sadly, there’s not enough focus on accessible design in schools today, thus learning about it becomes more of a personal responsibility. If you work with web, then the browser accessibility tools are literally just two keystrokes away. They’re not that hard to learn to use. Setting up a screen reader and working with that is a bit more work, but I’d encourage everyone who work with this kind of thing to do so because even if our education properly covered these things, nothing beats first-hand experience.
This is UI design basics but I guess there are a lot of bad designers / rushed projects etc
Quick question and I’m very happy with a RTFM type response: Any chance you’re red-green colour blind and can share some with what that’s like because the good-bad representation seems pretty pervasive in society?
I’ve actually got some level of all three types. My wife was trying to get me to play Puyopuyo tetris and it was driving me crazy that no combination in their colorblind menu worked for me.
The biggest downsides are graphs and stuff like that. Things just look like the same color to me. In my case, blue and purple, yellow and green, and red and green, just depending upon the hues involved. Most modern traffic signals, especially here in Japan, use a combination that is fine for me and not confusing at all.
I can’t really describe much better since I don’t know what it’s like not to be like this.
Edit to add: MMOs (and websites about them) often sucked because I could not tell the difference between gold and copper. The whole loot system color thing was also bad since blue/purple and other difficulties. There were some games I probably trashed epic gear thinking it was common.
That reminds me that the traffic lights in Japan are blue for green / go. So that’s better for you? Do you know if that’s historic, or because of colourblindness?
I have no idea the history/reasoning behind it, honestly. A “green light” is “ao shingo” in Japanese which would mean “blue signal”. Historically (I’m not sure until which year), Japanese just lumped everything under blue with words to describe the shade as necessary.