ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoThis is painfully truelemmy.caimagemessage-square108fedilinkarrow-up1991arrow-down146file-text
arrow-up1945arrow-down1imageThis is painfully truelemmy.caObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square108fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up75·7 months agoPeople at my company are like “why are we wasting screen real estate with white space?” and I imagine they see the last image is an ideal UX
minus-squareAggressivelyPassive@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up38arrow-down1·7 months agoWe’re currently trying to convince our client, that 4 different levels “mandatory” fields in a form are about two too many. The UI they sketched looks like shit, but they think it’s absolutely necessary.
minus-squareJoKi@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up23·7 months agoBut there was this one customer, where it was so helpful to know he’s left handed. So now this is a necessary information /s
minus-squareObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoAnd then the logging shows that nobody uses half the fields, but the business won’t let you remove any.
minus-squareMidnitte@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·7 months agoThe flipside is that all of the stuff you actually use is buried five levels deep.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months agoAnd the flip side of that is that the stuff you actually use is spread over 5 pages worth of scrolling and requires you to read like 100 labels until you find the text boxes you want
People at my company are like “why are we wasting screen real estate with white space?” and I imagine they see the last image is an ideal UX
We’re currently trying to convince our client, that 4 different levels “mandatory” fields in a form are about two too many.
The UI they sketched looks like shit, but they think it’s absolutely necessary.
But there was this one customer, where it was so helpful to know he’s left handed. So now this is a necessary information /s
And then the logging shows that nobody uses half the fields, but the business won’t let you remove any.
The flipside is that all of the stuff you actually use is buried five levels deep.
And the flip side of that is that the stuff you actually use is spread over 5 pages worth of scrolling and requires you to read like 100 labels until you find the text boxes you want
They’re right