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I polished my website https://ali-hussein.com and need to show my focus on developing ai-driven apps. I need some ideas on how to show it clearly. thanks
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This might not be advice that you're looking for but as soon as I open your site I'm confronted with basically a wall of text. If I was an end user I would look at it for 2 seconds, see that there is a ton of information to process, and immediately leave. I'd give your sections a lot more white space so that it's really easy for a user to digest the information without getting overwhelmed from the start. I'd also look into increasing both the hero title and description's font size.
Overall though I like the design direction a lot!
Site looks a lot more breathable now, I'd also suggest removing the pure black background as well. I was reading your story (really interesting) and it made my eyes hurt honestly 😂
there you go, no more pure black.
Thank you for reading my story. I hate pure black/white colors, I am just trying to do cool stuff like Vercel does. Vercel is who makes design trends these days.
Much easier for me to read! I would just check the contrast of the light grey and make sure it passes WCAG
And yea I suck at dark mode stuff that's why I keep all my stuff light mode 😂 seems much easier to design stuff that looks better that way
doing two modes is even worse. especially for landing pages.
I believe if we manage to do dark mode very well, users shouldn't need the light mode, because dark mode doesn't have the problem light mode has.
it comes with different problems though 😉
Like what?
Not generally, but it is also not a perfect solution for everyone - as always...
The common low contrast and monochromatic colour schemes of dark schemes make it hard to clearly distinguish sections, while texts and lines "glow" at the same time. Brighter text can easily look blurry and becomes harder to read. It's simply strenuous on the eyes.
Visual hierachy and gestalt of the (light) design also often goes down the drain.
When colour accents are involved, they are either not sufficiently desaturated and virtually burn into ones eyes, or again too subtle to be used to create hierachy.
And dark gray text over slightly darker gray backgrounds are as much of an a11y nightmare as is the equivalent light gray text on white too many (young) designers still love so much.
Then once the eyes have become accustomed to the dark, any suddenly appearing bright area (photos, charts, advertisements, videos) feels like someone's holding a torch over the iris. Dark Mode with "uncontrollable" 3rd party contents gets very distracting.
Some people find all this very tiring and exhausting.
It boils down to the skills of the designers and whether they care for and understand users older than 25 or just can't be bothered and believe their design choices are infallable.
I'm usually fine with using dark mode 'cos I also suffer from "computer screen syndrome" and have been light sensitive my whole adult life, but some apps make me feel "uncomfortable" when I switch to dark mode.
Agree, I don’t always like dark mode because of poor design of the colours and contrast. Luckily we have dark mode extension.
"some ideas on how to show it clearly" - what?
the "focus on developing ai-driven apps" I suppose