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By the same token, why reinvent things like scrolling, break the back button, or throw font sizes so small at your readers that they need to zoom to read? (To say nothing about top and bottom bars that follow you around on your 13" laptop screen.)

Humble suggestion: design fads.

My own question would be whether this gets taught anywhere. Because if it does, a few someones need to get fired.




> throw font sizes so small at your readers that they need to zoom to read

My problem is usually the opposite: I constantly stumble upon websites that use ridiculously large fonts like I'm a grandma that tries to read something on an overkillishly-retina display from meters away. However it doesn't usually bother me when I'm browsing from my desktop 'cause I have options to zoom out; however most of mobile layouts feature something like <meta name="viewport" content="..., minimum-scale=1"> (edit: also mentioned in the article albeit in a bit different context), which makes me choose between intensive vertical scrolling in regular mode and constant horizontal scrolling if I "request desktop site". (Yeah, I know, "reader mode"; it's a reasonable hack but I'm not quite satisfied with any of implementations either, and it only works for whatever browser thinks the main body of the page is.)


Most web devs I know are self taught. That includes the computer science majors scoring jobs at Google and Facebook - I haven't heard of anybody getting an "education" in web development, outside the bootcamps, and as a bootcamp attendee I recall us focusing on just learning how to program over anything else. Like, there wasn't a web design sprint.

Is this everyone else's experience? How has web design been taught lately?




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