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201984today at 5:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

>Your designers want

Sometimes, you need to tell the designers NO. Moving background images don't help people figure out what the weather is going to be.


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keicwifjwudtoday at 6:20 PM

And sometimes your engineers need to be a LOT less stingy. 1GB is clearly overkill for an app such as this, but ~300MB is perfectly acceptable if it works well, looks good and does what it should do.

There is such a thing as overdesign, but when you’re building a modern application, you must trust your designer’s sense of aesthetics and knowledge of UX patterns—two things engineers are often notoriously bad at.

mort96today at 5:52 PM

Honestly if the image is of the current weather it kinda does. I don't mind e.g Apple's weather app design at all

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