A menu is suppose to help you to quickly find and get to a specific section of your site.
Why do I have to click on a thing to reveal the menu even though on my laptop there is enough space to show it all? And then I have to move my mouse all to the other side of the screen?
Who is this for?
Nothing wrong with experimenting with CSS, but avoid ‘dribbblizing’ your designs if you intend to ship it to users who use your site for information or to get a job done.
Edit: commenting more on the iventions.com website where this effect is in use.
Iventions site is clearly a showcase and uses maximalism, which is most definitely a design philosophy. Design may about solving problems, but the fact that you feel entitled to think that you know the problem that Iventions is trying to solve, and also that they are doing it wrong is very presumptuous.
Not presumptuous. All based on doing enough usability testing to understand that time and time again people get confused if you try to reinvent the wheel or trying to be fancy when it comes to navigating around your site. Stick to best practices.
I tried to use it yesterday on my iPad. Some kind of element was blocking the menu.
Tried it today on my PC (big screen) - the intro animation is slow - 6-10 FPS and clicking on the menu item to reveal the items is slow as well. I could hear my fan spinning up.
Not everyone uses the latest greatest Mx chipset.
This tells me they haven't done any testing. Basically 'this looks cool' and 'works on my machine'.
Yes. This. I read a post-mortem about developing v2 of an app last month because getting insight into the thought process of the builder is super interesting (to me). It's probably not for most people, but it definitely has an audience.
ASML is a net positive for the world. Scientists pushing technology forward. Read about how they achieved EUV lithography, what an amazing feat.
META is a net negative for the world. Its leadership prioritizes profit over user safety (e.g. not protecting children), it allowed democracies to be undermined by boosting misinformation and social division.
WhatsApp was not developed by Meta. They just bought it. That said, I don't think Meta/FB is a net-negative, far from it. They contributed back to the community with high quality infra-level software.
Giving Gemini a go after Opus did crap one time too many, and so far it seems that Gemini does better at identifying and fixing root causes, instead of piling code or disabling checks to hide the symptoms like Opus consistently seems to do.
I tried GLM 4.7 in Opencode today. In terms of capability and autonomy, it's about on par with Sonnet 3.7. Not terrible for a 10th the price of an Anthropic plan, but not a replacement.
Not sure what your definition of 'Design Thinking' is.
Design Thinking isn't about people thinking "that they can just come in and design user interfaces, etc. without really having an expertise in the particular field."
It's a problem solving approach using UCD methods amongst others and working with experts in the field to come up with solutions and ideas to a given problem space.
Key thing is you work with the people who are experts in the field, for example working with medical experts to design a new health related application etc.
It is the practice that matters, which is the "designers" trying to elevate their position to something more special by inserting their special rules into the design process, often at the expense of other people involved, including the experts.
"Working with the experts" always turns into weird formalized brainstorming sessions or other rituals, where the designer defines the process and the rules, and others' role is just to be little players in the game, but not the referee.
This is nothing new. We have seen the same thing with PMs and "scrum masters" inserting themselves into the software development process with shit like Agile, Scrum, etc.
If design thinking is just a problem solving approach, experts and practitioners in the field are perfectly capable of doing that. We don't need the shamans of Design Thinking to guide the process.
Those experts and stakeholders have a day job (i.e. don't have time to do this) and are usually in silos. They are not experts in workshop facilitation, user testing, usability, rapid prototyping to iterate on ideas and to think more broadly.
It helps to avoid parts of the innovator's dilemma and to break out of siloed thinking, i.e. involve stakeholders from other functions of the org.
Not sure what you've been sold, but there are no special rules or rigid methods.
But you're right, unfortunately there are consultants who use this term to sell you a new wunder method to solve all your product problems, but they are not really design practitioners.
Same way as people took the Agile Manifesto and bastardized it to create SAFE.
> Not sure what you've been sold, but there are no special rules or rigid methods.
I am not intentionally trying to be argumentative, but
- I have seen UX designers refer to a team of developers as "my developers" and I take it negatively.
- I have been into countless design sessions where the UX designers conducted a weird formalized session with cards, sorting, voting with colored stickers, and assigning equal votes to newly hired participants and senior domain experts. They were beyond stupid.
Sounds like your ego was hurt by a process that's designed to expose ideas from a group on a level playing field. The process was working as intended. If it upset you, it might be worth reflecting on what you can do to be more flexible and open minded, which is hard to do as we gain more experience in life.
Design is about solving problems.
A menu is suppose to help you to quickly find and get to a specific section of your site.
Why do I have to click on a thing to reveal the menu even though on my laptop there is enough space to show it all? And then I have to move my mouse all to the other side of the screen?
Who is this for?
Nothing wrong with experimenting with CSS, but avoid ‘dribbblizing’ your designs if you intend to ship it to users who use your site for information or to get a job done.
Edit: commenting more on the iventions.com website where this effect is in use.
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