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You call it progress, I call it regress. It seems to me that we have lower performance, exponentially higher resource consumption, and often no more functional
by leadingthenet 6y ago
You call it progress, I call it regress.
It seems to me that we have lower performance, exponentially higher resource consumption, and often no more functionality in a “modern” web app / Electron app compared to some desktop apps from the 90’s. And for what? To have even worse UI’s and UX’s that never conform to platform guidelines? Where’s the progress?
- coliveira 6y agoThe big "dream" of web-based technologies was to allow designers the freedom to do whatever they want. But doing this has a lot of costs, which we are all paying today. In the early days of GUIs, a group would design the OS, and everyone would just use that design through the UI guidelines. It was, in my opinion, the apex of GUI programming, because you could create full featured apps without the need of an experienced designer, at least for the first few iterations. Now, I cannot even create a simple web app that doesn't look crap, and any kind of web product requires a designer to at least make it minimally usable. And the whole architecture became so complex because of the additional layers, that it looks more like a Baroque church than a modern building.
- tomjen3 6y agoThe desktop apps from the 90s were better because they could actually show more information on a 600 by 800 pixel screen than a modern app can do on a full HD screen, because it puts too much whitespace. Not to mention flat design, which is without exception bad design. Buttons have borders, show them.