| > The one on the left looks great. The one on the right looks awful. This is also just a mere assertion of "feelings", with nothing empirical and no data to back it up. As long as those are the rules we're playing by, I'll say that to me, the design on the left screams "designed by a dev", in the pejorative sense, while the one on the right looks like it had a designer involved. Whether there are actual usability improvements is an orthogonal issue, but I don't feel there's a huge gap between the two. I feel a lot of this comes down to trends, rather than actual usability. Keeping up with the latest trends in UI design is a signal that you care enough about design and UX to employ and empower a designer/ design team. Paradoxically, sometimes signalling you care about design might involve making the UX worse (relative to what the user base is trained on), if that's what the trends dictate. For example, the sudden overcompensated reaction against skeumorphism that was "flat design". Just some of my feelings. |