I feel UI tends to be a Conway’s law-esque manifestation of its backend. Some program designs will make different UI approaches easier than others. I think constantly how AppKit vs. Win32 encourages certain patterns (i.e. focus vs. first responder, latter making implementing a universal Edit menu easier, etc.).
There’s a lot of overlap here with clarity at the point of use: Design a function’s signature to maximize how easily understood its call sites will be, without the reader having to look at the declaration.
Swift goes one better and lets argument labels be optional, and distinct from parameter names, in order to let the call site read as fluently as possible. Array.insert(item, at: index) showcases both.
This is interesting because I agree with that I see and do UI design every time I touch html. I am a software developer who does front end mostly, but I can immediately notice when something is a pixel off.
I feel UI tends to be a Conway’s law-esque manifestation of its backend. Some program designs will make different UI approaches easier than others. I think constantly how AppKit vs. Win32 encourages certain patterns (i.e. focus vs. first responder, latter making implementing a universal Edit menu easier, etc.).
Also: API design is UI design.
There’s a lot of overlap here with clarity at the point of use: Design a function’s signature to maximize how easily understood its call sites will be, without the reader having to look at the declaration.
Named arguments are great for this. Unfortunately, some languages still don’t have them in 2022.
Swift goes one better and lets argument labels be optional, and distinct from parameter names, in order to let the call site read as fluently as possible.
Array.insert(item, at: index)showcases both.“if it’s not in frame, it doesn’t exist” <character of Fritz Murnau in ‘Shadow of a Vampire’>
if there’s no proper UI+UX, the feature does not exist. <me, here>
This is interesting because I agree with that I see and do UI design every time I touch html. I am a software developer who does front end mostly, but I can immediately notice when something is a pixel off.
In fact that’s what I expected the article to be about, but I liked the real content of it just as much.