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Comment by chrismorgan

Ah, explanations that are treated as justifications without actually justifying anything.

“Vertical rhythm” in website layout. Utter nonsense. Valuable in print layout (for adjacent columns or double-sided paper), completely useless in digital (unless you have side-by-side columns with headings or pictures mixed in, but this is seldom seen outside print, partly because the web doesn’t support it well).

“Modular scales” in choosing font sizes. Typically worse than utter nonsense, because you want heading levels to be distinctive, and modular scales will harm this by forcing lower heading levels to be too small.

Force all your app icons into a rounded square or squircle or circle, because consistency. No! Now you can’t find anything easily. Android was so much better before that nonsense started.

Monochrome icons deliberately designed to look the same. Now they’re unmemorable. Colour was a useful signal.

(This comment is generic; I’m not saying anything about LiftKit here, for or against.)

parent chrismorgan 8 months ago

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