found this breakdown of 5 usability principles that every engineer needs to study. it is easy to treat a layout like just another layer of css, but ignoring the logic behind the interface makes the whole product feel broken. if you are just pushing pixels from
figma without thinking about
hick's law or how cognitive load impacts the user, you are essentially building technical debt into the visual layer. we should stop treating usability as
something for designers to fix later a core part of the implementation. it is much harder to refactor a broken flow than it is to build it right the first time.
> most devs think ux is just padding and fontsi used to think
the same way until i saw how bad latency ruins user perception but these laws are more about structural logic. does anyone else find that implementing
fitts's law actually makes the frontend code cleaner? it feels like better spatial planning leads to less messy positioning logic in the stylesheet.
more here:
https://uxplanet.org/5-ux-laws-every-developer-must-know-3ee39eff2ec2?source=rss----819cc2aaeee0---4