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As someone who struggles with these people every day I would prefer it die with fire. UX (the abstract concept you are giving the user) and UI (the implementati

As someone who struggles with these people every day I would prefer it die with fire. UX (the abstract concept you are giving the user) and UI (the implementation) are there to make the user be able to get out of the application what they need. Spending ridiculous energy on stuff which does nothing to help the user along is a waste of effort. It's no different than worry more about the "look & feel" (using the old term) than building something that is understandable and adaptable to different experiences and abilities of users. There is nothing wrong with making it look pretty or even using motion to point a user in the right direction but like everything these days it becomes an end unto itself and just makes development take even longer and cost even more.

Yhippa 11y ago
I get the feeling that UX/UI designers are doing this stuff to stand out from each other. No point in using the existing stuff that already works if it doesn't have your name on it right?
- nathanaldensr 11y ago
  The more cynical among us would say that you're exactly right. Many designers have big egos, religious perspectives on what designs are "right" or "clean," and suffer from extreme cases of NIH syndrome. These types of articles are resume portfolios for many of them. Next Steps Ready to learn how to create these beautiful animations? Check out my blog and Motion Design course at The Kinetic UI.
  - pavlov 11y ago
    I feel you're on the mark with this. It's not all that different from the endless stream of programming articles that promote a particular approach as the one true solution, when the writer happens to be a consultant in that specific approach. "Awesome Agile Angular solves all your front-end woes! -- Sign up for my mailing list, buy my e-book, take my 3-day course, come see me talk at the TimeWaste 2016 conference."
    - aikah 11y ago
      > TimeWaste 2916 conference note to self, trademark that conference name ASAP ...
mattip 11y ago
Personally I prefer wxwindows, which doesn't need upgrading because it just works, but people keep telling me to use qt (which requires a commercial license) and to keep upgrading it too. So dunno who is right.
- 0942v8653 11y ago
  Hopefully you've at least updated since it was renamed to wxWidgets: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/commit/fc2171bd4c660b8554dae2a1cbf34ff09f3032a6 https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/commit/fc2171bd4c660b... (also, there was an update on February 29th, so it's still being actively developed)

Yhippa 11y ago

I get the feeling that UX/UI designers are doing this stuff to stand out from each other. No point in using the existing stuff that already works if it doesn't have your name on it right?

nathanaldensr 11y ago
The more cynical among us would say that you're exactly right. Many designers have big egos, religious perspectives on what designs are "right" or "clean," and suffer from extreme cases of NIH syndrome. These types of articles are resume portfolios for many of them. Next Steps Ready to learn how to create these beautiful animations? Check out my blog and Motion Design course at The Kinetic UI.
- pavlov 11y ago
  I feel you're on the mark with this. It's not all that different from the endless stream of programming articles that promote a particular approach as the one true solution, when the writer happens to be a consultant in that specific approach. "Awesome Agile Angular solves all your front-end woes! -- Sign up for my mailing list, buy my e-book, take my 3-day course, come see me talk at the TimeWaste 2016 conference."
  - aikah 11y ago
    > TimeWaste 2916 conference note to self, trademark that conference name ASAP ...

mattip 11y ago

Personally I prefer wxwindows, which doesn't need upgrading because it just works, but people keep telling me to use qt (which requires a commercial license) and to keep upgrading it too. So dunno who is right.

0942v8653 11y ago
Hopefully you've at least updated since it was renamed to wxWidgets: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/commit/fc2171bd4c660b8554dae2a1cbf34ff09f3032a6 https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/commit/fc2171bd4c660b... (also, there was an update on February 29th, so it's still being actively developed)