Herman Celiński

Independent interface & brand designer. MMath.

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Such an interesting read
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@tomjohndesign I bet you it will not. Our brains developed to operate within repeating, predictable environments following learned patterns. Chat has no predictable pipeline making it lose to a GUI. Chatbots will lose to the mouse just like the command line did.

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@ridd_design @figma Maybe if it had a radial progressive blur + the simple choker effect from After Effects (the technique used to create fluid blobs)

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@sdw Interesting. “Liquid” glass, however, looks like molten candy, mercury, or some viscous chemical compound; I am not sure if that would work.

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Drew this lady

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True progress will happen when we ditch HTML/CSS. Those technologies are made to be written by hand, and as long as that’s the case (forever), any design-to-site conversion will be cumbersome.
A tool should draw directly in the browser, much like Flash did, and not generate code.

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@Pinsky I do not think it has to be different, simply turning on and off specific panels in each version would work. It’s accommodation to specific user flows: newbies want less panels and immediate results. Old users want complex functionalities they are used to. It’s mutually exclusive

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@Pinsky I would have introduced a screen on the first launch & version update with “newbie mode/simplified interface” and “expert mode” options. That would split two audiences, leaving old users with their preferred way, and giving space to experiment with the new.

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@Pinsky I know what you are saying, and perhaps you are right. It does not change the fact that such a large company could have done better in its flagship product.

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@Pinsky That is what I said. You’ve improved experience of new users at the expense of the old ones, and you are getting a backlash.

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@Pinsky I do hide it. But, from the UX point of view, you should not prioritize new users over old ones. Adobe can accommodate for both groups, and making the panel just visible by default is a lazy solution.

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@MengTo Those sticky headers are crazy.

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@disco_lu Does Figma plan to introduce separate variables for RGB and Alpha?

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@felixleezd You can do several things, but never master them. You can delude yourself into believing you are great at X, Y, and Z, until you meet a true expert in X and he will roll over you like you aren’t even there.

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A problem (in this case, UI design) sets a limitation as to how simple the interface can be. It can be only that simple and no simpler.

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Having said that, presence or absence of the gaps is unimportant. Figma strives for minimisation of the interface, but you cannot have fewer controls than necessary to solve a particular problem. If you simplify too much, you lose flexibility in your process.

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Who could have thought that chasing a fancy visual trend not for Dribbble shots but for an actual application is a stupid idea

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Who could have thought that chasing a fancy visual trend not for Dribbble shots but for an actual application is a stupid idea

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Fixed panels are so back, floating panels are out

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Having one specialisation will not by itself make you good. You may be doing one thing, but slacking about it, not learning anything new, not putting any effort. This is not the point. The point is if you want to commercially succeed, you need to choose one thing and focus all your energy on it, give it everything you’ve got, dedicate all the time you can to it. Spreading yourself across 3-5-10 disciplines will not work.