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Dec. 16th, 2021 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavthe amount of extremely hacky design tricks i've been teaching the team this past week (under the auspicious stories of 'oh yeah i found this site in college/while making a comic or learned this trick when i was making forum signatures (god does that probably date me)' -
is.... hilarious :D;
to which - one of the big things i love about design is if you can "see" it, you can "make it".
there's no limitations, nothing concrete or physical stopping you from reverse-engineering what you see as far as a render or printed object. sketchup and good illustration skills can go a long way for displays, like knowing the ins and outs of illustrator for logos. so then the real mastery of design comes from a deep understanding of the "why" in terms of actual execution. shitty design (in my eyes more non-functional design rather than "ugly" design) tends to stem from a 'yeah this won't work in real life to grab eyeballs because of x, y, z.) tbh it's why a lot of trendy behance projects are far shittier designs to me than a well-done implementation of -god forbid- papyrus on a restaurant menu. I "have" seen it done in a way that's tasteful and works.
(... this is why i have also debated making a design blog under my dayjob handle and ultimately decided against it lol. i'm not interested in this performative [gasp horror] response or edginess embracing something that works.)
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relatedly: digital UX wise, i think i've come up with a crackpot theory called the '2 clicks theory'
i get supremely annoyed at any kind of digital ... clicky action whether it's on the phone or a laptop or terminal screen or remote that requires more than two clicks. my luddite dad (and proud of it) can generally handle two or three clicks on a remote ( tv on button + menu + select channel) but freaks at anything more complex.
i know i personally prefer going to remove.bg to transparentize backgrounds instead of doing it in photoshop because at "minimum", even with a fancy PS script, you're looking at 5-8 clicks to transparentize an image, wheras remove.bg it's two. drag/drop the thing, hit save, boom. looking at other things like uploading images on tumblr vs wordpress ... yeah i can see this pattern play out everywhere, which is interesting.
makes me wonder if this is enshrined in one of the earlier apple UX manuals. :v
is.... hilarious :D;
to which - one of the big things i love about design is if you can "see" it, you can "make it".
there's no limitations, nothing concrete or physical stopping you from reverse-engineering what you see as far as a render or printed object. sketchup and good illustration skills can go a long way for displays, like knowing the ins and outs of illustrator for logos. so then the real mastery of design comes from a deep understanding of the "why" in terms of actual execution. shitty design (in my eyes more non-functional design rather than "ugly" design) tends to stem from a 'yeah this won't work in real life to grab eyeballs because of x, y, z.) tbh it's why a lot of trendy behance projects are far shittier designs to me than a well-done implementation of -god forbid- papyrus on a restaurant menu. I "have" seen it done in a way that's tasteful and works.
(... this is why i have also debated making a design blog under my dayjob handle and ultimately decided against it lol. i'm not interested in this performative [gasp horror] response or edginess embracing something that works.)
--
relatedly: digital UX wise, i think i've come up with a crackpot theory called the '2 clicks theory'
i get supremely annoyed at any kind of digital ... clicky action whether it's on the phone or a laptop or terminal screen or remote that requires more than two clicks. my luddite dad (and proud of it) can generally handle two or three clicks on a remote ( tv on button + menu + select channel) but freaks at anything more complex.
i know i personally prefer going to remove.bg to transparentize backgrounds instead of doing it in photoshop because at "minimum", even with a fancy PS script, you're looking at 5-8 clicks to transparentize an image, wheras remove.bg it's two. drag/drop the thing, hit save, boom. looking at other things like uploading images on tumblr vs wordpress ... yeah i can see this pattern play out everywhere, which is interesting.
makes me wonder if this is enshrined in one of the earlier apple UX manuals. :v
