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Design

font readability and user experience.

Hi everyone, most websites use this really thin typefaces and faded shades of grey for articles text and I find it really annoying and stressing my eye it may look nicer from a distance but when you just trying to read and this forces you to lean forward or activate reader mode and this destroys completely the design even while writing this question the font color is annoyingly blended with its background

2 Answers

David Moorhead
David Moorhead
18,005 Points

Designing sites with UX in mind can be a bear; it's almost, yet not entirely, impossible. I recently read on another site, a frustrated UX designer, who wrote, "We do the best [design] we can, and we'll sort the rest later." As I see UX presently, it's becoming beyond trendy -- I see "strike a balance" as a movement. The movement as such is an ongoing balance between several technologies: one of which counts as beautiful designs, and another counts as the latest technology with which designers will contend.

Within my geographical location, there is one restaurant that has committed a whole web page to empathy for their readers without using the word empathy. The website is professionally attractive, appealing, colorful and minimalistic, and obviously produced by UX designers with authorization by their client. (I just had a thought: the restaurant owner may be visually impaired.) Further, the site is entirely responsive, and built with accessibility, usability and inclusivity in mind.

See W3C Accessibility, Usability, and Inclusion as well as a11y Accessibility Audits by Chrome Accessibility Dev Tools.

Keeping in mind the word usability as written by ahmed, there are two people being trained: (1) the client, who's paying the invoiced amount, might experience a phase of training by a UX designer; (2) the UX designer might train for her/his proper explanations of UX design to a client.

Next week, I'll attend a two-hour session on "The User Experience of Comic Books," presented by a UX designer who's been in the design business since the early 2000's. That session will have expected revelations with the bonus of meeting several other UX designers.

That's all. G'day. :)

Rich Donnellan
MOD
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,696 Points

Feel free to contact support with any feedback you might have. Accessibility (a11y) should be considered when designing any site. Sorry that you're having issues.

it's not about treehouse I ask in general as design trend in web and UX I want to hear what people feel about usability over good-looking designs and how we as developers and designer strike a balance

Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,696 Points

Oh. I didn't really see any question being asked. You might want to reword and use punctuation to get better responses.