RANT – Software GUI Designers

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    Ed PEd P
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      @edps
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      I have just wasted 30 minutes as some idiot GUI designer for KIA decided that an 8Point, very light grey font on an off-white background makes a cool design for software update instructions. Unfortunately he/she is not alone in the world, in that a number of other sites and programs seem to have caught this malign designer disease.

      Some even reserve this highly illegible design for their legal clauses or warnings!

      #69508
      PlaneManPlaneMan
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        @planeman
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        Having a bad day Ed?

        I agree that stupidity is endemic in software and website design.

        #69509
        Ed PEd P
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          @edps
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          Yes it has been one of those days. The Sat Nav software on the car complained that it needed updating and played awkward yesterday during use. So this morning I started what I thought would be a 30 minute job – hell it took me over 30minutes to be able to decipher the illegible update instructions in the software, followed by an interminable 28Gb software download – the update itself has only just begun and is due to finish in 10minutes. Sods law says that it will break the existing Android software on the car and require yet another download!

          Normally I’d say the hell with it and do without the update — BUT I know darned well that in today’s cars the car management software sits in the media centre/Sat Nav, and I dare not just ignore updates.

          #69510
          Ed PEd P
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            @edps
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            As I suspected, the update failed, but it does not seem to have broken anything! Time to try again.

            #69511
            Dave RiceDave Rice
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              @ricedg
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              The flat Windows 10 GUI drives me mad, as do “scrolling blinds” websites.

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