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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (9 children)

A highly compatible design with no ads, unnecessary images, videos, animations, scripts that goes straight to point delivering you exactly the information you need and nothing else? Something that's easily accessible even with old feature phones allowing older people to get information easily?
Simply something that loads instantly and just works?

Who would want that?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Those are very valid points, but the complete lack of UI and UX design doesn’t make it the best. Just some basic things will suffice.

  • less redundant wording
  • critical info formatted to be on the same visual line
  • some simple icons added which roughly represent the info
  • a basic design (header, centered box with info, easy on the eyes colors)
  • basic responsiveness to support most devices
  • bigger font sizes for the critical info could further help visually impaired people

That would make the info quickly and easily digestible, even at a glance, for most people on most devices.

I get the point, but I wanted to show that well designed frontends make using the web easier for people with human-tailored designs. Of course, over-the-top artsy visuals, dark patterns, defiant handling of cookie policies, invasive data collection and corporations doing corporate stuff make the web annoying, difficult and unsave to use for humans. I think we need to differentiate between those.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

basic responsiveness to support most devices

Dude, that is the mother of responiveness. It literally supports all the devices.

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