Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by alecperkins 4857 days ago
The idea that small font sizes are acceptable because “users can zoom” is fucking ridiculous, and I am extremely disappointed to see it suggested here. That is absolutely the wrong attitude. If a user has to go out of their way to use your interface, you're doing it wrong. No question. Interfaces should bend over backward for their users, not the other way around. Yes, you can't satisfy every edge case, but the default attitude must not be “well, users can just use this workaround”. That thinking is why we have crappy interfaces. If that's your approach for building interfaces, please stop building interfaces, for the sake of the user.