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That after all those years you have to explain to customers that a screen is not aprinted page is annoyingly enough - but having to explain this to the designer (whose job it is to explain this to the customer btw) is fucking outragous. They should be shot in the very moment they use the term 'optimize'.
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@Fast-Nop huh?
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@Lensflare If the screen doesn't work, then you can ignore it - and that's about the only valid reason.
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@Fast-Nop well, devs and designers have a different idea of what "works" means ^^
At least in the concept phase.
After the actual implementation, I bet both would agree that clipped content doesn’t count as "works".
The hard part is to convince designers why a design won’t work. -
@Lensflare Hopefully not the Todd Howard "It just works." Where crashing is acceptable.
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@Lensflare I don't mean that the website works. I mean that the screen works. As in, it's not defect.
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Dev: This content might be too large to fit into this area on mobile.
We might need to add scrolling or design it differently.
Designer: It fits perfectly in the design.
Dev: But the user might have a smaller screen size than in the design.
Designer: We don‘t optimize for small screens.
Dev: But we still need to handle it somehow.
Also, the text might be longer for other languages.
Designer: No problem, we will provide short text for all translations.
Dev: We have 30 languages and the translations are made by a third party. We can not control it.
Designer: We‘ll manage somehow.
Dev: Also, the user might be using an accessibility setting on the device which makes the font size larger.
Designer: Unlikely
Dev: Also, the available screen size might be reduced by the on-screen keyboard.
Designer: … Ok then.
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It‘s always a conversation like this. It repeats indefinitely.
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