Jordan AustinNov 2, 2023
Lea Verou, PhD

🔥 New blog post! 🔥

I started writing a toot about @github’s new comment UI and it somehow turned into a whole 1.7k word article on simplicity, usability, their evolution, and the effects of poor UIs. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs
https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/minimalist-affordances/

Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs • Lea Verou

Nov 2, 2023 at 6:18pmWeb
Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Nov 2, 2023
@leaverou @github Thanks for the new site and the blog post!
I’ve spotted a tiny typo: “to minor usabiity issues”.
Show threadBenjaminNov 3, 2023
@leaverou @github I really thought the page was broken or incompletely loaded until I saw it enough times to try typing in it. It's emotionally uncomfortable to type in, fighting how it looks vs. what I know it is.
Show threadDaniel AdamsNov 20, 2023
@leaverou @github thank you for this post. We have shipped improvements to make it easier again to identify the textarea and distinguish between Write and Preview.
Show threadspartanatreyuNov 27, 2023

@dipree @leaverou @github Any chance you can take a look at the borders and labels here?

This is goes exactly with what Lea was talking about and it's the most prominent papercut you can get while trying to navigate the site right now:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/52083#discussioncomment-6239504