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One annoying trend in UX these days is believing that simple UIs are sufficient, when the audience is technical, and the product is technical/complex. You simpl
by ksk 9y ago
One annoying trend in UX these days is believing that simple UIs are sufficient, when the audience is technical, and the product is technical/complex. You simply have to see a cockpit to know that highly technical/skilled people can easily use a complicated UI just fine. I do believe designing a UI is hard when your audience is "everyone who can use a computer", but OTOH, products obviously meant for programmers or other technical folks should definitely surface a LOT more complex interactions.
- noir_lord 9y agoI'm a fan of interfaces that surface and submerge information at the behest of the user. Intellij does this well since you can toggle everything with the key map, two key strokes and I have the conventional busy IDE interface, two more and editor with text and no clutter, which mode I'm in is dependent on what I'm doing. vscode has it as well, they call theirs Zen mode.