Full stack developer here. Completely agree. Modern ui is arse. Worse is the standard go to design is nothing more than a huge arse background image, full width page and over sized fonts with a parallax effect. Very little content.
If I get the gui wrong y site fails. Intuitive and pleasing to look at isn't easy to pull off. As an engineer mind the artistry is the hardest part.
What I do is build the functions then the form takes shape after many many iterations of trial and error
Also a dev and I can't stand it either. It's like everyone started using designs intended for high res phones and completely threw out the last two decades of UI standards. A web page shouldn't feel like it's zoomed in to 400% when you look at it on a normal size monitor.
Well said. Since I have you here please allow me to bitch.
Wtf is up with pure oop?
A fucking 1000 lines of wrapper code around 10 lines of code that do the actual work.
It's bloated. Over complicated and time consuming. I get paid for completed projects but most are on wages.
Is it about being a member of a cult or make work to increase a projects time span and therefor more hours paid?
Fuck I hate pure oop.
For the most part, I do embedded programming, but there have been a few times I've had to do something in C# for a Win32 application with a GUI. And yeah, the artistry part is the hardest/most time consuming. Last one I did, oh is it gorgeous looking for an industrial application, but I had that shit projected onto a 12-foot screen to see it better, and I was up there with the ruler then moving things one pixel to the left.. one to the right... nope still looks fucked up... arghh!!
I feel your pain. I'm in developer tools making minute adjustments to line heights. Font size and colors for sometimes hours.
Which is typically unpaid. But if I don't get oohhs and ahhs from clients it doesn't matter how great the app is
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