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get ready to be dismayed with just about any decision any UI/UX people make. They like to design interfaces, good ones and bad ones, and they like it when peop

get ready to be dismayed with just about any decision any UI/UX people make. They like to design interfaces, good ones and bad ones, and they like it when people use them, so they make sure they're adopted and used. UX people don't give a crap about what you like. They like what THEY like. And they LOVE empty space and constant meaningless change. I suspect that by the time this reaches "release" status, it will have had some feedback incorporated and a few small changes made as token gestures. Whoever designed this will allow nothing more than that, and they'll get their stupid, undeserved raise, and then things will calm down for a while, and sane changes will again be made.

rainonmoon 5y ago
It's really strange to me that there's so much antipathy for UX designers on HN when their job is literally the opposite of "liking what THEY like." Undeniably some people employed in the field disregard designing for accessibility and usability, but in that case you're not referring to UX designers, you're referring to bad UX designers.
- deckard1 5y ago
  the thing is UX people aren't even responsible for a lot of these messes. Look at Reddit and tell me that wasn't designed by some A/B-maximizing staple-counting corporate robot trying to bump up their "engagement" stat by 1/1000th of a percent. Their site is pretty much the parable of the Paperclip Maximizer AI. I refuse to believe any human was involved in their new design.
- naikrovek 5y ago
  if ui/ux were based on anything scientific, each iteration would bring us closer to some ideal UI in a particular scenario. we don't see that. we see wild changes which break large portions of spatial and muscle memory, over and over and over again. we would stop seeing changes pretty soon if we measured and tested and honed in on the ideal UI for a given site or tool. changes happen MORE frequently and are more disruptive than ever, it seems.

rainonmoon 5y ago

It's really strange to me that there's so much antipathy for UX designers on HN when their job is literally the opposite of "liking what THEY like." Undeniably some people employed in the field disregard designing for accessibility and usability, but in that case you're not referring to UX designers, you're referring to bad UX designers.

deckard1 5y ago
the thing is UX people aren't even responsible for a lot of these messes. Look at Reddit and tell me that wasn't designed by some A/B-maximizing staple-counting corporate robot trying to bump up their "engagement" stat by 1/1000th of a percent. Their site is pretty much the parable of the Paperclip Maximizer AI. I refuse to believe any human was involved in their new design.
naikrovek 5y ago
if ui/ux were based on anything scientific, each iteration would bring us closer to some ideal UI in a particular scenario. we don't see that. we see wild changes which break large portions of spatial and muscle memory, over and over and over again. we would stop seeing changes pretty soon if we measured and tested and honed in on the ideal UI for a given site or tool. changes happen MORE frequently and are more disruptive than ever, it seems.