This MAD Friday I’ll share with you an article, a quote and more.
Dark mode
Dark mode is all the rage these days. Honestly, something I don’t get. It makes sense to developers who like working in the dark (perhaps also some designers), but for the rest of the world?
Here is a nice balanced piece on the dark mode. This articles covers the history, pros, cons and everything in between. A great read!
Quote
This week I was reminded of Ira Glass’s famed taste gap:
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
He said he wished someone told him that when he was a beginner. I wish I heard it earlier too.
Resource: UI Patterns
UI Patterns is a collection of common UI elements that address a specific problem.
Each patterns comes with a problem summary, examples, usage guidelines, as well as detailed solution description and rationale.
There is also a social aspect to it. Apparently you can vote for patterns. And people do vote… unfortunately very few explain why they voted the way they did.
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