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>you're almost certainly better off using the consensus interface; and if it has problems, contributing the fixes for those problems back to everyone This is u
by mrob 6y ago
>you're almost certainly better off using the consensus interface; and if it has problems, contributing the fixes for those problems back to everyone
This is usually impossible, because UI designers' goals are not your goals. Designers optimize for distinctiveness ("branding") and good first impressions from inexperienced users. This results in anti-features like low contrast text, excessive whitespace, and mandatory animations. There's no point complaining because it's working as intended. The only option is to switch to one of the few remaining systems that still respects the users.
- hashkb 6y agoI don't agree that all designers do this; but it's certainly common. Are you extending that criticism to the designers of respected professional tools like Photoshop, Logic, Final Cut, MS Word, etc? Those are products refined over years using the feedback of thousands of professionals. If I walk into a recording studio you decided you don't like red clip meters... if I sit down in your airplane and you've flipped the rudder pedals with the stick... I mean... there are standards and standards are good and the more good standards we have the better off we all are. I'm using one of those few remaining systems that you mentioned. But even on OS X I don't find it "impossible" to use the standard interface.