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It's a rant of 1h 17mins. The video is funny but it's very centered on the author's usage of Windows UI, which is obviously very specific. When you ship a prod
by flr03 6y ago
It's a rant of 1h 17mins. The video is funny but it's very centered on the author's usage of Windows UI, which is obviously very specific.
When you ship a product like Windows you have to be very mainstream, you can offer options to customise the UI, fair enough, but honestly the best option is to be dead boring. Maybe once in while you can bring in a new UX concept. Thinking out of the box and trying to reinvent the wheel like they did in 8 doesn't work.
I'm not trying to defend Windows, I think it's been going downhill in term of UI since 7 but not for the reasons he mentioned.
- agumonkey 6y agoThese were my first thoughts too, he's ignoring the kilotons (megatons even) of constraints of a company like Microsoft and its flagship have to navigate around. He's also so far above the average user's understanding of things. Most of my neighbors are not at ease when I tell them to `right-click`
- dredmorbius 6y agoMacOS is if anything more constrained than EWindows in terms of GUI (largely: desktop) customisation. As the video actually explores at some length, Linux, or more accurately, the world of X11 window managers and develoment libraries, shows some real exploration, most notable with wheel/pie menues.