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The legacy UI often works fine and the new UI's sole purpose is to justify the salaries of the design department. Ask any customer if they're willing to pay for
by blub 6y ago
The legacy UI often works fine and the new UI's sole purpose is to justify the salaries of the design department. Ask any customer if they're willing to pay for a new UI and you'll likely find that they don't.
- viraptor 6y agoIt depends on a question though. "Do you want a UI redesign?" will likely be a no. "Do you want to access the thing you're using 100 times a day in 1 click rather than 5 menus?" will always be a yes. Unless the company is completely failing at its strategy (and that's not the same thing as many vocal people saying that on the internet forum), the redesign has goals and some reason behind it. Your "worse" may be solution to someone's ongoing problems.
- dt3ft 6y agoWe tend to underestimate the value that a decent UI/UX professional can bring to a software product. Users typically hate changes (change aversion is in the human nature) and will hardly notice any improvements. But try to install an older piece of software, say, Microsoft Word 97 and compare usability to the current version. Don't pick one feature, look at it from a daily usage perspective. I bet you'll find a ton of improvements and think "huh, I had no idea it was so painful to work with Word 97"...
- out_of_protocol 6y agoActually launched Word97 recently. Surprisingly good UX, at least for simple documents
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- stan_rogers 6y agoAnd I'd bet I wouldn't. I'd bet a considerable amount. I'd bet I'd find that features I want to access are inexplicably hidden frequently.
- out_of_protocol 6y ago> "Do you want to access the thing you're using 100 times a day in 1 click rather than 5 menus?" Usually, that's an argument for the old version