Sho KuwamotoIn terms of big wishes, what do you wish that #figma could do?
DesignDamon@skuwamoto This is going to sound like snark, but I swear it's not : Tools which encourage genuinely different ways of approaching interface design. I have no idea what exactly that would *look like*, but I know that something(s) which encouraged people to break out of the genericism of so much UI design would be super-interesting.
@damon cool! I’m not sure what that would look like but it’s interesting to think about. Lmk if you get any ideas!
72mena@damon @skuwamoto This sounds more like a paradigm shift, rather than a change in tooling. Or something that depends on what you’re designing for.
For example: Game design does “break out of the genericism“ in UI. But most websites/apps outside of gaming follow established patterns that are familiar and accessible for users, which contributes to things feeling generic. Not a bad thing though!
For example: Game design does “break out of the genericism“ in UI. But most websites/apps outside of gaming follow established patterns that are familiar and accessible for users, which contributes to things feeling generic. Not a bad thing though!
@skuwamoto @72mena Both good points (especially regarding the weird disparity between game interfaces & web). It's inevitable that as disciplines mature, Standard Ways of Doing Things and tropes set in. As you say - not all of that is necessarily a bad thing! (spoken as someone who does a fair bit of work involving inclusive design).
I don't miss experimental flash sites when I'm trying to DO something, but I do miss that sense of trying drastically different ways of approaching interaction.