[orestis]

The truncated text is a huge peeve of mine with designers. I get that it’s hard to design a nice grid if you have to account for text that wrapped etc, but not everyone is called Tom Smith, and not all titles are 20 characters long.

A designer I know advocated that users should be coaxed into using shorter titles and descriptions so that the UI looks good. It just makes me seethe.

[kashunstva]

> A designer I know advocated that users should be coaxed into using shorter titles

My collection is 99% classical. The problem is especially bad for classical tracks. “Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op…” What opus, what movement? what tempo marking? Yes I’ll go back and tell Beethoven to change the title to something shorter and catchier. “Joy, Bros!” Is that better?

It’s some kind hubris to think your UI (itself the result of design laziness) is a bigger priority than the integrity of the composer’s intent.

[orestis]

Supposedly there’s a classical version of Apple Music in the works, which should fix this.

[blenderdt]

I have been building websites for over 20 years and this has always been a problem. 99% of the designers also design texts that perfectly fit the design.

The end result is a bad experience for both the developer, the customer and the end user.

[motoxpro]

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-little-do-users-read/

This is why they were advocating for "Concise Titles" instead of "Titles that are Short Enough to Read, but Long Enough to Convey Info!"

[DarylZero]

When you have 20 consecutive listings that all have the same first 80 characters, you don't even read those 80 characters.

But the listing only shows the part you don't read!

[hyperdimension]

I agree. It's so anno...

[orestis]

Well sure, if we were building something towards general audience I’d say yes, let’s bias our UI towards editorial rules that can be enforced, since incentives align.

We’re building enterprise-internal software. There’s ton of jargon that is in play that we can’t really shorten or guide. It’s insane to think that the users, experts with decades of experience in their domain, should editorialize to fit a design goal. Sometimes, the users do know best.