Why Lorem ipsum is the word we don’t talk about anymore

“Lorem ipsum dolor shit meet, consequences despicable elite, sad do eew mod temper indignant um la-BORE etc doling magnanimous ashit.”

The popular Latin text which had become synonymous to ‘dummy text’ or ‘filler text’ has finally started to fade away, thanks to the smarter, more empathetic people in the design community. It does not imply that there was a dearth of good designers before, it just means that product designers have now become intolerant to scrambled text which made design layouts incoherent and unrealistic.

What harm can ‘Lorem ipsum’ do to my designs?

Short answer — It can do severe harm! Think about jumping out of the plane without a parachute. Yeah, that kind of harm. Seriously.

Long answer — Ignore the short answer. It was full of crap. Just like Lorem ipsum is. :)

Well, the point is that it makes designers complacent. Okay, I meant to use the word lazy but I’m sure you get the drift.

It also robs the eventual design of character. Rather than truly understanding how the designs would be used, Lorem ipsum just sits there like a dress that looks great on a mannequin but doesn’t tell you anything how the same dress will look on you!

Reality is different.

Data in the applications doesn’t wear the garb of “Lorem ipsum”. It relates to things around us-whatchamacallit-like names, quantities, descriptions, sizes etc.

I can’t begin to tell you how many pretty designs have fallen apart completely once real data has been injected into the interface.

To me, Lorem ipsum is like the communist phenomenon where every UI widget gets the same size of text.

To me, Lorem ipsum is like a basketball coach who can’t differentiate between Stephen Curry and Lebron James.

To me, Lorem ipsum is like one size window to all kinds of walls. No matter how small or big. It doesn’t take into account the size of the wall. Whether this window would even be usable in that wall.

Okay, we get it. Enough already with mixing mindless analogies of Lorem ipsum. We get the point that you don’t like Lorem ipsum. Let’s stick with the wall analogy. Will…