I'm a bit like the parent poster and I scored 0 on your test.
It's not like I can't tell the difference if I see hi- and low-fidelity products next to each other. It's just that I don't care enough to pay the price premium, and I don't mind using low-end equipment. I also feel less apprehension about losing or damaging it.
An even worse, or at least equally bad, UI fail in that Lightroom screenshot/gif: I can't even tell which buttons are supposed to be clickable and which are disabled/grayed out.
It's subtle but they aren't the same. The list makers are now to the right of the text entries as they should. But it's hard to see because it's somewhat hidden by the glaring issues the rest of the page still has.
It's tough to put yourself out there, and the work you've done is impressive - hats off to you for that. I don't read the parent comments as critiques of your work, just your description of it, so maybe take a breath and don't stress about it.
This is a moment in the spotlight for you - it would be more interesting to hear about what you've done here and why it's important to you.
> there's no documentation (in the sense of common wisdom), so you can't ask stack overflow or AI. you have to do it like in old days: learn from examples (that have bugs in them ;) and read those few books on turbo vision again and again.
Not sure what you mean here. Turbo Vision came with extensive high quality documentation. If anything such documentation is what's lacking nowadays.
i mean:
for example you have a problem 'how do i create scrollbars two squares wide' (not a real problem, can't think of something now)
if you work with qt for example so these days you ask google/stackoverflow/qtforum and you have multitude of responses if it's a common problem and sometimes you have whole solutions ready to copy&paste.
when you work with TV and ask google - you usually get... not much. so you have to take the longer route: study the doc/books (you mentioned), study the code, examples... or be friend with the author of this library or those two or three people who actively use this library these days ;)
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edit: btw those books (there's a c++ one as well) you mention are good, but, sadly, no book is detailed enough when you have very specific problem :)
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