alt Hacker NewsThe faster we commodify design the faster we can get back to some sane consistent normal interfaces. Only the very biggest platforms (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be spending any time on "design systems".
Imagine if a designer were hired to custom design the lightswitches in every building. We need to get back to off-the-shelf interfaces and stop wasting smart people's time reinventing UI widgets.
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Designers are hired to make sure those light switches are put in the right place. Much of the time, it's pretty obvious. But sometimes...
I think a big part of the reason AI is so divisive and only declining in popularity, is because much of the discourse is shaped by mid to senior career SWEs who fantasize about putting everyone who's not a mid to senior career SWE out of work. People who want to replace everything we like with streamlined slop and want everyone we love struggling to get by. Everyone is inessential except the guy who just sits there telling Claude "can confirm, looks good ship it" who of course isn't deserving of even a paycut
> Only the very biggest platforms (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be spending any time on "design systems".
Like what they have some superior knowledge or ability to design ?
Let me remind you they weren't always tech giants, what if we said lets stop innovating before apple or any of these became a thing.