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0 pointsxp847d ago0 comments

It wasn’t AI that brought us Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards, nor the 10,000,000 ••• menus that have infested every webapp in the past 10 years as an alternative to thoughtful UI design. We humans made everything shitty before we made AI.

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drivers997d ago

> Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards

It's a tangential point, but I turned on System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Increase Contrast (the on/off option, not Display Contrast) and now at least the windows are outlined sharply.

dylan6047d ago

The "Differentiate wihout color" is one I like. All of the on/off sliders now have a 1 or 0 to indicate on/off

ozzymuppet7d ago

OMG this is wonderful! Thank you.

isityettime7d ago

A lot of people who think of themselves as able-bodied never think to poke around in the Accessibility sections of their settings menus. But it turns out that accessibility options are for everyone; people should really think of and evaluate them as first class tools more often

theK7d ago

Or,are we just getting older and these things suddenly matter?

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pseudohadamard7d ago

They really should just have a single checkbox, "Prioritise usability over wank", and leave it at that.

befictious7d ago

Good thing we trained our fortune teller calculators on all that historic shittiness!

iugtmkbdfil8347d ago

Maybe, but at least the 10,000,000 options were there instead deemed that they are not to be used by those pesky users. And now its they are not just hidden. They are simply not there.

coldtea7d ago

Guns and bombs also didn't create war. But they did made it way more lethal.

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