I'm from GenX. I've been skulking around the tech industry for way too long and this is just bad advice. If you're younger this is just wrong. I can definitively tell you from experience.
If you're a website designer, you're always noticing "jank" on other sites. Your skin crawls at the poor kerning, the FOUT, the lack of keyboard navigation, improper contrast ratio, and a dozen other flaws. 99% of users just don't care. It doesn't impact them in any meaningful way.
Your users do notice, they just don't know how to express it. Most users coming to your site probably won't know the proper term for it is 'kerning' but they do notice it, especially subconsciously. The user's impression and perception is important. Poor UI/UX results in poor customer perception.
This is like Ford Motor Co. saying customers don't notice chipped paint or gaps in the body panels so way bother with quality control. This doesn't apply in other situations, why would it be true in this one?
Bluntly, I don't think that's true. Look at the amount of movies Elvis was in. A couple of good ones, sure. But the majority are literally just "This demographic will pay a dollar to see Elvis on screen; so put him on screen". You only need to look at the various lists of highest grossing movies to see that the viewing public don't necessarily reward expertise and craft.
If you're a website designer, you're always noticing "jank" on other sites. Your skin crawls at the poor kerning, the FOUT, the lack of keyboard navigation, improper contrast ratio, and a dozen other flaws. 99% of users just don't care. It doesn't impact them in any meaningful way.
Your users do notice, they just don't know how to express it. Most users coming to your site probably won't know the proper term for it is 'kerning' but they do notice it, especially subconsciously. The user's impression and perception is important. Poor UI/UX results in poor customer perception.
This is like Ford Motor Co. saying customers don't notice chipped paint or gaps in the body panels so way bother with quality control. This doesn't apply in other situations, why would it be true in this one?
Bluntly, I don't think that's true. Look at the amount of movies Elvis was in. A couple of good ones, sure. But the majority are literally just "This demographic will pay a dollar to see Elvis on screen; so put him on screen". You only need to look at the various lists of highest grossing movies to see that the viewing public don't necessarily reward expertise and craft.
Cocaine is popular too. What's your point?