As a 14-year long user, the new Fisher Price UI makes me sad :( What have they done to you, Reddit?
As a 14-year long user, the new Fisher Price UI makes me sad :( What have they done to you, Reddit?
Notice there is only 1 full headline (from /r/NoStupidQuestions) visible, it doesn't even show the full post. There are 3 of those "trending" boxes but only 2 of those even fit their headlines because they are like 3 words long, they cut off anything longer including the description
I originally became addicted to Reddit because of how streamlined it was to skim dozens of headlines and pick from lots of content, seems they have decided content is not something they want to provide anymore :/
You're viewing a single thread.
The fact that crypto is listed on the side makes me wanna bump my head on the wall.
The whole thing in general looks like a mobile app stretched to fit on a monitor. I mean, that's how most websites are in 2023.
Not only do I hate the cultural shift from laptop/desktops to phones, you can't even avoid it when on your desktop because of how websites are designed for mobile first now.
That's not a mobile first principal. Mobile first design and development includes progressive enhancement as the viewport grows. You can make a website that operates perfectly on mobile and desktop. These fucks just don't actually adhere to any philosophies or standards. Don't blame mobile first, which is a brilliant approach, for the shortcomings of a dumb-ass company like Reddit.
It's called "responsive design" i think. I played around with it a bit when learning html years ago. You can get free website templates that have this cooked in - like, you don't need to code anything. Seems easy to do and pretty much an industry standard now. Pretty weird that reddit would choose a trashy option instead.
Responsive design is approach you can use as part of your mobile first development. There are others, but responsive is a good one.
Yeah I used bootstrap for building some websites almost a decade ago now, and I used responsive design. You could have the website in a small browser window and it'd appear as the mobile version with a navbar at the top. As you drag the window wider it slowly morphed into the desktop version.
So much white space.....so many frames...so much waste....I can't look away....it's whispering to me ....
Mandatory Website Obesity Crisis mention, TL;DR:
Some kind of brain parasite infected designers back when the iPad came out, and they haven’t recovered. Everything now has to look like a touchscreen.
My gripe with this design aesthetic is the loss of information density. I'm an adult human being sitting at a large display, with a mouse and keyboard. I deserve better. Not every interface should be designed for someone surfing the web from their toilet.
It's like we woke up one morning in 2008 to find that our Lego had all turned to Duplo. Sites that used to show useful data now look like cartoons. Interface elements are big and chunky. Any hint of complexity has been pushed deep into some sub-hamburger. Sites target novice users on touchscreens at everyone else's expense.
I shouldn't need sled dogs and pemmican to navigate your visual design.
A lot of apps are also just web wrappers for a mobile site.... It's obvious with some apps, others are a bit harder to see, but it's there.
Low effort app developing.
funnily enough, it literally fucking is, this was originaly their mobile site.