I think at some rate product designers lost the plot. We were meant to be inventors, thinkers, and a bridge between humans and the message or invention.
We aren’t meant to merely declutter, simplify, or make things pretty.
Designers are meant to make the very thing humans will be working with, in every imaginable way possible.
We are not rectangle builders, we are not pixel pushers, we are inventors and builders pushing to communicate to humans or let humans communicate to our inventions.
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Interesting seeing the reactions to my pretext experiment (and others). A mix of “we could already do this” and “this breaks layout/readability.”
Feels like the more interesting conversation is what changes when this becomes native to the web, and what it unlocks creatively. Thats how I read the spirit of what @_chenglou proposes.
New possibilities ≠ the “right” way or final form
This is the kind of primitive shift that makes you realize we’ve been designing around broken constraints the whole time…..excited to see how UI evolves from here
This is the kind of primitive shift that makes you realize we’ve been designing around broken constraints the whole time…..excited to see how UI evolves from here
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
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Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow