Still wrong. As was the one where half the guitar is cut off to “fill the space”. It’s like zooming in on a 4:3 tv show and cutting the top and bottom off.
Same here. Stopped after this one because I kept being told that dark patterns were correct.
This site is a disservice to the entire field of UI design, not to mention the users. At the very least they could have explained _why_ de-emphasizing secondary options or cropping information out of photos is "more correct"
To the site author: your suggestions considered harmful, just give me my 90s-era UI design back, please.
Yes, I kind of bristled at the arrogant word "correct". Correct in what sense? What metric does the "correct" side boost over the "incorrect" one? How was correctness measured? Is it correct simply because it conforms to some document that some company wrote? Most of the choices to my eye are subjective and could go either way.
Then again, I'm not a UI designer. But I wonder what a UI designer thinks of someone boiling his/her design judgement down to a simple 'correct vs. incorrect' choice.
You fill the space so that in a screen with 20 of those cards, they all have the same visual weight, no random dispersed white blocks. The purpose of the picture at this point is decoration to identify a product type, not showing you details of the guitar - you'd see that once you open the product page. Your comment is like complaining that an A3 poster for a TV show doesn't show the full scene.
In a website context I think you're wrong, using a scale instead of a crop would result in every image on your page having a different aspect ratio, since the uploaded images probably don't have size constraints.
That would look absolutely whacky. Especially in responsive design, where the aspect ratio of the parent container changes with screen width.
The difference is that thumbnail images aren't TV shows, it doesn't really matter if the image is cut off. Its not supposed to have literal information, its just a contextual hint of what that element is doing / is related to.
