hifix
Joined 4 years ago
Joined 4 years ago
We send out HTML emails and reports to our users that make use of progress bars, lists, photos, colours etc and they love them. They can get quick full updates on their business without having to leave their mailbox. Pretty hard to do that in plain text.
There were numerous quirks on Windows that you just had to live with (alt-tabbing between apps when the keyboard stopped working every 10 minutes was a highlight). Changed to Figma for UI and haven't looked back. Thanks to those engineers who did work on it and gave us a non-Mac alternative to Sketch - I still miss the Repeat Grid feature.
Some examples:
https://liveblocks.io/blog/how-to-animate-multiplayer-cursor...
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-flexbox
https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/
Although it's all very content dependent of course - FE development tends to lend itself a bit better to this sort of format.
In any case, you would want a supporting label to really convey the meaning.
While I love to see these sorts of icons in personal sites and projects, the reality is that if I presented icons like these to a client for a SaaS app in 2023, I'd be sent back to the drawing board. No serious business wants their UI to look like it just stepped out of the 90's.
After that I went through a number of Chris Oliver's GoRails tutorials (https://gorails.com) which I found really helpful too.
I realise team sports aren't for everyone but they can be great motivators especially when the weather isn't great or you aren't in the mood, and you always end up feeling better for it at the end. I find it's easier to slack off when you're the only one accountable.
It's not that people are unimpressed with AI - they're just tired of constantly being bombarded with it, and it sneaking its way into where it's not wanted. "Generate any image you want!" "Analyse this thing with AI!" gets pretty tiring.
If I want AI I'll actively seek it out and use it - otherwise, jog on.