Comment by SAI_Peregrinus
15 hours ago
It only matters to the designers. The users don't care which sans-serif font the designers picked, they all look the same.
15 hours ago
It only matters to the designers. The users don't care which sans-serif font the designers picked, they all look the same.
You'd be hesitant to trust a brand if it can't keep consistent styling. Branding helps users identify a brand and believe it or not the aesthetics of a brand make a great deal of impact on consumers.
As others have said, your point comes across as "let's remove design who cares" because design and human computer interaction roles stopped where your understanding ends. Everything looks the same to you after all (it doesn't, you just haven't noticed it affecting your decision making).
Consistency is not the same as making a technically-unique-but-visually-indistinguishable Helvetica clone.
It’s subtle, but attention to detail all around will add up to something that looks polished. I appreciate that as a user, at least
Fine, I’ll take the bait. If this is true, then why isn’t everything in the world Arial/Helvetica?
Because people are stupid enough to worry about many things which don't matter. This includes, but is not limited to, font choices.
That's the most retarded take I've seen in a while.
The designers are generally the ones doing and watching presentations on design. They are also the users of the office suite in this case.