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Comment by quickthrower2 | Hacker News Reader

The color hurts my eyes. The heading font sizes look out of place. I think this site needs some design principles.

This is the kind of design that works in print (and, I accidentally discovered, on my AMOLED display) but which a regular computer monitor turns into a weapon of eye destruction.

Another important part of design is that you have to consider the medium. At all times. (I'll have to stop here before I go on a rant about mobile apps with "color samples" people use when picking wall paint colours...

Really depends on the phone. Anything with a P3 display (iPhone>7, iPad Pro, pixel 2, galaxy 7) actually has very good color reproduction without any calibration. Even better if it has ambient white balance like apple’s TrueTone.

I'll have to accept your statement at face value because you don't provide a credible reference, but I'll remain skeptic.

Seriously, the page just copied Reclam's design used for almost every Reclam book there is:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ae3ah0jPL...

Correction: the page just copied Reclam’s cover design used for almost every Reclam book there is

I bet that for folks who are designers and get the reference his choice makes perfect sense and it might even be nice. But for me, most importantly, after loading the page it was unclear what to do. Use the menu? Scroll? I don't think it's good design for users to have to guess where the content is or what they are expected to do.

you're not a design person you wouldn't understand (LOL)

Also looks similar to the JavaScript community style. Since JS determines behaviour on the web, they're likely to have the same audience.

I don't understand why designers have started with those huge fonts. Seriously not everyone visits your site from some mobile device ffs!

Because they don't have a lot of text and it doesn't make sense to leave most of the page blank?

But then make the user scroll through it?

well, yes, actually. use the viewframe to your advantage. understand the reader's scope of interest. whatever part they're focused on now can fill the canvas... anything else is visual noise until the reader is ready for it.

This might work will for Kindle books, but this is anti-skimmer though. And on the web you need to appeal to the skimmer who is trying to decide if your article is even worth reading.

The fact that you don't like how it looks means only that you don't like how it looks. I'm sure most of the people don't mind or like it (me included).

you called out a fallacy and then fell straight into it yourself. All we know from your two comments is that one of you likes the design and one of you doesn't.

Second part of my comment is just proof that personal opinion is irrelevant.

When I open that page full screen I can see 6 words and an icon and I have to scroll down to actually read anything...

It depends. I viewed this on a regular computer monitor and didn't find it unpleasant. I acknowledge that black-on-bright-yellow is a matter of taste, but it was nowhere near eye-hurting.

No, but there's always somebody with some combination of equipment and physical attributes that means a good design isn't universal.

This. They should have used something more towards orange, and a bit less saturated.

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