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Most of the time it's for inner achievements for the product manager or designers part. Another is they just changing their ui/ux lead and they have different

Most of the time it's for inner achievements for the product manager or designers part. Another is they just changing their ui/ux lead and they have different views. It can also redesigned to match style updates, useful for fashion, travel or wedding sites. Sometimes the menu increases that a list of buttons can't accommodate anymore so it's changed to it's own page or drop-down. Sometimes they want people to be confused and ask the changes in more general forums, generating free publications.

godelski 5y ago
Most of these sound pretty insane tbh (though some completely sane). > Another is they just changing their ui/ux lead and they have different views. This one specifically irritates me. Even under the assumption that that new lead is correct and the new interface is cleaner and more usable, it still needs to be weighed against the time it takes to retrain users to the new format. You have to deal with what you were given. You can't just burn Rome to the ground, rebuild it in a day, and expect everything to be fine. For the love of god, at least do testing to show that this the cost doesn't outweigh the benefits.
- danjac 5y ago
  It's not something that's confined to design/UX though. Bring in a new CTO/tech lead and they'll tell you the current architecture is outdated or the code is spaghetti and needs a rewrite in [insert architecture/language doing the rounds on HN]. Bring in a new project manager and they'll want to introduce [insert Agile framework du jour]. Someone has been hired for presumably a lot of money, and if they just go "meh, it's fine, we just need to tidy things up a bit here and there" people might question why they were hired for a lot of money.
  - stingraycharles 5y ago
    Of course, but the difference is that there’s a much higher impact for the users if the design keeps changing. Technical infrastructure is pretty much entirely hidden from the users.
    - WJW 5y ago
      Sure, but it's not the users being fired if they "make no impact".
- WJW 5y ago
  The benefits for the new UI lead are that they don't lose their job due to "having no vision" or something like that. Human psychology is just super bad at recognizing when "no action" has saved the day so to make any progress in a corporate setting you need to have visible achievements. Giving such downsides to not changing the UI, no cost is too high for a new UI lead.

godelski 5y ago

Most of these sound pretty insane tbh (though some completely sane). > Another is they just changing their ui/ux lead and they have different views. This one specifically irritates me. Even under the assumption that that new lead is correct and the new interface is cleaner and more usable, it still needs to be weighed against the time it takes to retrain users to the new format. You have to deal with what you were given. You can't just burn Rome to the ground, rebuild it in a day, and expect everything to be fine. For the love of god, at least do testing to show that this the cost doesn't outweigh the benefits.

danjac 5y ago
It's not something that's confined to design/UX though. Bring in a new CTO/tech lead and they'll tell you the current architecture is outdated or the code is spaghetti and needs a rewrite in [insert architecture/language doing the rounds on HN]. Bring in a new project manager and they'll want to introduce [insert Agile framework du jour]. Someone has been hired for presumably a lot of money, and if they just go "meh, it's fine, we just need to tidy things up a bit here and there" people might question why they were hired for a lot of money.
- stingraycharles 5y ago
  Of course, but the difference is that there’s a much higher impact for the users if the design keeps changing. Technical infrastructure is pretty much entirely hidden from the users.
  - WJW 5y ago
    Sure, but it's not the users being fired if they "make no impact".
WJW 5y ago
The benefits for the new UI lead are that they don't lose their job due to "having no vision" or something like that. Human psychology is just super bad at recognizing when "no action" has saved the day so to make any progress in a corporate setting you need to have visible achievements. Giving such downsides to not changing the UI, no cost is too high for a new UI lead.