Labels are always held in high esteem
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We have been using Layervault in HubSpot for a week. This is a great app with a surprisingly nice interface. When working with the program, you immediately understand that there is a great example of a flat interface in front of you. The developers even shared their thoughts on this topic.
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But even to me, the ardent supporter of minimalist aesthetics, in every way welcoming the removal of unnecessary elements from the interface (what all self-respecting designers constantly do), it seemed that, with simplicity, Layervault had clearly gone too far ... they managed to remove the explanatory labels from the navigation bar! And now everything looks like this:
I have been working with this interface for a week now, and still can not figure out the structure of navigation. I can’t remember what each of these icons mean. The folder icon is a list of projects. Here everything is more or less clear. And that is only because this icon is the first one and is set by default. The second icon with the plant leads to the “Management” screen, where you manage human resources and projects. I’m confused with it every time - even the explanatory text is missing there ... as a result, in order to understand whether I clicked on the correct icon at all, I have to pry into the URL of the page.
Something tells me that the designers, trying to make their project as minimal as possible, removed everything, except that tiny bit of things that they thought were irreplaceable. So people can be applauded while standing! (by and large, their design is simply gorgeous ... but it’s just that, by the way, I had to). Nevertheless, I still think that explanatory labels should be preserved in almost all cases, because only they translate speculations into the section of obvious solutions. Nothing will illustrate the management option better than the concise signature "management." In other words, in the struggle for clarity of understanding among icons and labels, labels always win.
The laurels of the winner in the struggle of icons and labels for clarity and understanding go precisely to the labels.
We have been using Layervault in HubSpot for a week. This is a great app with a surprisingly nice interface. When working with the program, you immediately understand that there is a great example of a flat interface in front of you. The developers even shared their thoughts on this topic.
')
But even to me, the ardent supporter of minimalist aesthetics, in every way welcoming the removal of unnecessary elements from the interface (what all self-respecting designers constantly do), it seemed that, with simplicity, Layervault had clearly gone too far ... they managed to remove the explanatory labels from the navigation bar! And now everything looks like this:
I have been working with this interface for a week now, and still can not figure out the structure of navigation. I can’t remember what each of these icons mean. The folder icon is a list of projects. Here everything is more or less clear. And that is only because this icon is the first one and is set by default. The second icon with the plant leads to the “Management” screen, where you manage human resources and projects. I’m confused with it every time - even the explanatory text is missing there ... as a result, in order to understand whether I clicked on the correct icon at all, I have to pry into the URL of the page.
Something tells me that the designers, trying to make their project as minimal as possible, removed everything, except that tiny bit of things that they thought were irreplaceable. So people can be applauded while standing! (by and large, their design is simply gorgeous ... but it’s just that, by the way, I had to). Nevertheless, I still think that explanatory labels should be preserved in almost all cases, because only they translate speculations into the section of obvious solutions. Nothing will illustrate the management option better than the concise signature "management." In other words, in the struggle for clarity of understanding among icons and labels, labels always win.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/304376/
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