Ask HN: Examples of good technical UI designs
What are some examples of good, functional GUIs built for industrial and scientific purposes? Thinking of frontends that can cleanly display and provide many analysis tools for large amounts of data.
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There are simulation games that have extremely complicated and extensive UIs for taking various actions and analyzing in-game data. One good thing that some of them do is give tooltips and explanations when you hover over the button/graph/table/section/panel you're working with. Done smartly, I think this can be a great approach for managing very complicated systems.
No pictograms! English text words for every item.
I know developers love it because it's less localization. Have you ever tried trouble shooting over the phone with pictograms?
"Now click on the..triangle with an arrow coming out of it...no you clicked on the circle with a triangle inside it...OK then, click on the hamburger menu...it's the one with three horizontal lines...you can't see one? Is it three dots maybe?"
I know developers love it because it's less localization. Have you ever tried trouble shooting over the phone with pictograms?
"Now click on the..triangle with an arrow coming out of it...no you clicked on the circle with a triangle inside it...OK then, click on the hamburger menu...it's the one with three horizontal lines...you can't see one? Is it three dots maybe?"
Seriously, having to read out loud e2e feature tests and have it make sense should be a hard PR requirement.