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If anything, they had a better idea what they were doing than people do now. Windows 95 is a case study in good design. They got there by testing it and iterati

• noir_lord 8y ago
  Win95 and Win2k where in my opinion the high water mark of Windows UI, everything since has mostly been different or worse. Though with touchscreens I can see why that pattern would have dated badly. That said, 16 year old me would have zero issues with using Cinnamon how I have it setup 22 years later. Well after he stopped pointing at the screen in amazement and trying to get his head around a laptop with 4x2.8GHz cores and 8 threads. Hell he’d even recognise a thinkpad in 2018 mostly because 16yo me really wanted one.
  • j45 8y ago
    Win 2k really was sharp. Xp eventually was able to get close but by then it was replaced by Vista, and I switched to Mac.
• pavlov 8y ago
  This. We’ve gone backwards in informed usability. In my first software job in 1997, the UI department employed an industrial designer, a graphic designer and a researcher with a masters in cognition science. The company had a usability lab where the UI was tested under controlled conditions. Today companies have a graphic designer who calls themselves a “UX expert” and draws pictures of interfaces in Sketch.