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Material 3 Expressive

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336 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 13 May 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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xiphias2 ◴[16 May 25 08:31 UTC] No.44003039[source]▶
I have an idea: just write ,,Send'' on the send button and people will find it even faster and easier... also make the button rectangular and add a drop shadow.

Welcome to 1995.

Also, 70+ year old people who have the hardest time using a mobile phone even if they need to, like my mom are just not even included in the test. She just can't find buttons done with material design.

For a company that was talking about inclusivity for 10+ years, setting 64 the highest age for UX testing is unacceptable.

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1. bsimpson ◴[16 May 25 14:26 UTC] No.44005927[source]▶
There isn't a highest age for testing. When you participate in an experiment, you enter your birth year, and we use that to stratify the data into age bands.

Unfortunately, participant panels are not great at having representative populations. It's been a while since we've put a study on Mechanical Turk, but it famously skewed towards young Indian men.

One of the reasons to ask age and gender is to balance towards representative. It helps you detect and correct for imbalances in the participant pool. However, commercial participant panels are bad at certain demographics, particularly at scale. There simply aren't a lot of 70yo women using UserTesting or Cint. If you insist on having statistically significant quantities of responses from older women in every experiment, you'll exhaust those panels disappointingly quickly.