Gregory's Server@CiaraNi Design Museum in London makes you have to have a phone for them to email the tickets to then you need to have your phone out of dark mode for them to scan the tickets.
You're. A. Design. Museum. Why do you not understand this design is horrific?
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@CiaraNi I've literally never had any other digital ticketing system require me to change out of darkmode before, I was very flustered because I was like, where even is that option, I turned it on when I bought the phone, where do i turn it off and blind myself ? Just don't do interlaced images, do a background of white for your barcodes, geeze.  @Akki @CiaraNi Clearly the design is not good, but I'll mention in passing that dark mode is problematic for scanning in a variety of circumstances. I'll add that for many people with common eye issues dark mode is MUCH less readable than white mode, and sites that do not permit white mode are causing them many problems. @lauren @CiaraNi Oh this topic has come up on mastodon before, the minor amount of research out there has a roughly 50/50 split on if dark or light is better - it's totally down to personal preference. Poor UI on websites isn't new for accessibility or readability though, not limited to light/dark mode. @Akki @CiaraNi I can hardly focus in dark mode at all. This appears to be the statistical norm, or closer to it: https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-accessibility-issues-than-it-solves-d2f8359bb46a @lauren @CiaraNi it's funny because as I was forced to read the first half of that article in light mode, it was giving me the halo effect it says people get in dark mode. Can't be arsed to sign up to read the whole thing but I'm sure I have read it before which is what sparked off another debate somewhere on mastodon where we concluded it's down to individual need/preference. Which is fine. Make it optional for everyone. Accessibility needs options. No one should be forced into a box. |
@Akki That’s a great example of not-great design and use of technology