Comment by gjsman-1000
21 days ago
Yes, but those usability people have a tendency to design interfaces for the lowest common denominator. This often ends in disaster as the lowest common denominator often cannot even navigate a “usable” interface. Meanwhile, those who aren’t in that group feel almost infantilized.
I will take my extremely dense UI over an accessible interface that shows only 10 rows on a spreadsheet in 24 point font. Think of those with low vision!
> Yes, but those usability people have a tendency to design interfaces for the lowest common denominator. This often ends in disaster as the lowest common denominator often cannot even navigate a “usable” interface. Meanwhile, those who aren’t in that group feel almost infantilized.
I fully agree with you. But ...
> I will take my extremely dense UI over an accessible interface that shows only 10 rows on a spreadsheet in 24 point font. Think of those with low vision!
You will be Ctrl + FrontMouseScrollWheel to read your 3rd monitor too eventually.. be nice on HN.
> You will be Ctrl + FrontMouseScrollWheel to read your 3rd monitor too eventually..
I'm failing to parse this
I parsed that as: one day, you will have to use the zoom too.
Just because one doesn’t need accessibility features now, doesn’t mean you won’t ever. A little bit of empathy would not be a waste.
Ctrl-+
> Meanwhile, those who aren’t in that group feel almost infantilized.
For me, the perfect examples of feeling infantilized (I like that word) are the following: I feel infantilized by government or hospital illustrations that are meant to convey a simple message to the lowest common denominator. I feel infantilized by Youtube videos and TV ads that use these happy but annoying 'toddler' sounds in the background.