Ugh

[mtgat]

Every time a web designer uses small font grey on grey as the default settings and takes away the text buttons to replace them with ICONS because it's PRETTY, an angel gets its wings ripped off and stomped on. Trufax.

Brought to you by AOL's new inbox and my new headache.

Comments

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

YES. And, speaking as a web designer, you *cannot* tell some people that "unreadable" means "website is a failure in practice".

[mtgat]

Exactly. And it always seems like "upgrade" means "unreadable." I'm still using Dystopia as a site scheme because it's the simplest design to read. (My LJ is done in black-on-lavender because the bluish backgrounds are easier overall for me to use as contrast, but I don't expect the rest of the world to read that style.)

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Actually, I find your LJ design extremely readable -- I favor black-on-light-green myself, for that very reason.

"But it's not *cool*!" grrrrrrrrrr

[mtgat]

Hee! I like that I can change my private viewing skin on AO3 to match these colors. I hate that I have to change it so I can read it at all. And AOL won't let me even modify that.

We fail at being cool. They fail at being readable. :P

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

So true. *sigh* Sooooo true.

[mtgat]

Every design group should have at least one myopic team member who can sit there with a little Wile E Coyote sign: "I still can't read it."

[queenfanfiction.livejournal.com]

I could go on for yeeeeears about how every time Facebook announces a new quote-unquote upgrade, I die a little inside and wonder how they could have possibly found any room to make it any WORSE.

[mtgat]

And yet they keep hitting bottom and digging deeper.