This resonated with me, but I would have loved to see some positive examples as well. The tone did not read as a rant, but as someone that doesn't know too much about good UI construction, I did not feel like I walked away any closer to understanding what a North Star should be.

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seemack 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I did just this recently. I detailed the imperfections first, which were similar to this in concept, and then walked through the improvements I made.

If you're curious, you can see it here: https://www.thisischris.dev/projects/project-6/

	▲	akersten 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for highlighting the "one element cross fades into a totally different one" example. That particular type of animation really makes an app feel ungrounded and unreliable to me, it gives a sense that the UI elements aren't really tied closely to the data and are just barely existing. And somehow I see it all the time across tons of apps. The improved versions where the elements actually transform into each other, sharing the same visual real estate, is so much better.

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jastanton 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or if the author mocked out what each of the bad examples should look like if done properly.