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JUST STOP CHANGING THE UI FOR NO REASON! You wouldn't re-write a whole app without a very solid engineering reason. But site after site re-does their UI witho
by the-pigeon 6y ago
JUST STOP CHANGING THE UI FOR NO REASON!
You wouldn't re-write a whole app without a very solid engineering reason.
But site after site re-does their UI without any stated reason.
For companies I've worked for we did new UI designs because they thought it would increase sales, even though it threw out all the sales optimizations we made in the last design. So, it was always a negative for sales.
It's just a big waste of money that upsets users. I understand tiny startups having CEOs that do it out of ignorance. But large organizations should know better.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoMy theory is that, at these big companies with large, established products, they're just looking for stuff for designers to do. I mean, you do need designers for whenever you add new features, and you want really great ones for that. But those really great designers want to do something, and there just aren't enough new features to keep them busy. I mean, I don't dislike the aesthetics of the change, but yeah, I just wonder, "Why?" I agree with the few (what I think are relatively minor) specific issues that have been pointed out where utility has decreased, and I'm finding it difficult to point to any particular change and say, "Yes, this is better than before."
- b3kart 6y agoYep, I think that’s (at least partially) true, even if it’s not explicitly acknowledged in the company. Same with Google and their endless new projects: what else would all those smart engineers do? Support existing projects? Yeah, let’s see how many of them won’t leave to build new things in some startup in a few months. It’s a balancing act on the part of any company employing creative people, I imagine.