Ui redesigns usually throw away user experience. Users who do not recognize your software and its workflow anymore can easily converted to another more traditio

Ui redesigns usually throw away user experience. Users who do not recognize your software and its workflow anymore can easily converted to another more traditional product. So a ui redesign is a gift for competitors. But sometimes, there is no real ui, just a slum of drop down options where all the options are crammed into - alphabetical or sorted by a bad Fridays mood. Those that will tell you that these uis are okay, are usually power users who do not use the ui but hotkeys. Usually those powerusers do not use other products but recommend their own mess. (blender/gimp) This is what ui designers are here for, if you're a developer, you are not there audience and most of the time you might even be a bad influence, due to your lack of knowledge on the ui conventions of the rest of the world.