I dont know how this type of blog posts get into HN.<p>One guy ranting saying "I dont like this, period" without any elaborated answer fits into the same clickbaiting crap that we get elsewhere...
<i>Computers are meant to be automating certain things in this world, so that you could concentrate on the important things in your life. It is not meant to be a life force of one's life.</i><p>I also dislike animated, time wasting UIs, but <i>because</i> computers <i>are</i> one of the most important things in my life and I want to spend more time on the cooler things they can do :-)
I think this make tons of sense. It seems like some designers or people that make interfaces try to ~show off~ to users with cool UIs, crazy animations, etc.
This resonates with me (though is terse on proposed solutions). As an example of a very effective UI, I use vim with multiple buffers, ctrl-p and ctags in a largish c/c++ project. It lets me fly around the code effortlessly. My colleagues are pointing and clicking through tabs in sublime text. Sure sublime is probably faster to learn, but it certainly has a lower upper bound on performance.<p>I would love to see the keyboard used more in modern interfaces, the discrete nature of keys can make for a crisp experience compared with the finely quantized continuous space that is the domain of the mouse. Think of problems like hunting for the right place to grab and divide a window border, key combinations could get you the same result without the hunt.
I think his blog is very much "modern UI."<p>The styling is well-considered, deliberate and does the job nicely. UNLIKE the naked HTML/no-css that some people here PRETEND to admire.<p>Webpages should be pleasing to the eyes. Pulling this off requires a sense of taste and significant work (although not necessary by the content author).
I kinda agree, but I'm not sure the problem are animations or effects, but where is the focus and the priority of the design, and the management and reduction of information and visual noise.<p>Reminds me this old post of mine from 5 years ago: <a href="http://www.feiss.be/blog/post/157" rel="nofollow">http://www.feiss.be/blog/post/157</a>
I can understand why a super productive i3wm is good for developers. It just keeps the focus on the task.<p>My mom still uses Lubuntu on my 2006 laptop with 1 GB RAM, when Gnome and KDE require at least 2+ GB.
What are examples of "Modern UI"?? I think of Mac OS X, my Garmin watch or the Leica M10 UI. They are modern but I do think their UI would still be good in 40 years
a huge part of this "modern UI" wants to be invisible, and not fancy at all. Transitions, transparency, animations are techniques and methods to make a digital thing become more humanized.
I like this post because it validates my opinions!<p>IMO this is the pinnacle of web design: <a href="https://stallman.org/" rel="nofollow">https://stallman.org/</a>