New GNOME Human Interface Guidelines now official – and obviously some people hate it

guest · Aug 9, 2021

New GNOME Human Interface Guidelines now official – and obviously some people hate it
August 9, 2021
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/09/gnome_human_interface_guidelines/

Red Hat's Allan Day, a member of the GNOME design team, has said that the project's new Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) are now official.

The GNOME HIG, as Day explained back in May, was "fairly out of date" both in terms of technical changes for GNOME 40 and GTK (GNOME Toolkit) 4 and also what he called "contemporary design practice."
Day noted on Twitter that "the new GNOME HIG is now official. There's more work to be done, but I'm pretty pleased with it overall."
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Despite the effort that has gone into GNOME 40 and the new HIG, the updates to GNOME are contentious. "I really like the GNOME 3.38 design… However, the GNOME 40 looks like the unproductive thing that gives you pain," said one user, while another called the HIG "Insanity specified… How else would you come up with a filechooser no one can use, or an OK-Button of a dialog in the window title bar."
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One complaint about the new GNOME guidelines is that they embrace the idea of hiding less-used options and features for the sake of a simpler experience, saying "don't overwhelm people with too many elements at once. Use progressive disclosure and navigation structures to provide a guided experience."

The downside is loss of discoverability, and the fact that some actions take more clicks or keypresses to accomplish, leading to complaints that the UI is designed to "make everything take as many clicks as possible."
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NormanF · Aug 28, 2021

Dedoimedo isn't impressed. More New Age hipsterology nonsense.

An OS that takes more effort to navigate? Don't need, don't want.

This is the wrong direction for GNOME as far as human interface is concerned.

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