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Every time I see that happening to some software I use I wonder if the designer is a passerby tasked with making it look pretty or somebody that actually use th
by pmontra 5y ago
Every time I see that happening to some software I use I wonder if the designer is a passerby tasked with making it look pretty or somebody that actually use that software daily.
Examples in different categories as I don't use Nextcloud:
Do Firefox designers for Android use Firefox on their phones as their only browser or they use Chrome and don't understand how their new UX added too many extra taps and/or complications?
On the other side, the designer of new K9 is the original developer and I'm pretty sure he uses K9 daily. I and many other people just happen to use the app in a very different way than him and many others. The new app optimizes one workflow and inadvertently destroys the other. At least I understand that even if I had to go back to the old version (no security bugs there at least.)
- cycomanic 5y agoI find the new UI of Firefox on android much better than the old and miles better than chrome, so these things are quite subjective. Also, the complains about how design and UIs are getting worse, remind me a lot of the "the youth of today" complaints that can be dated back to Plato. There was plenty of absolutely horrendous UIs around at every time. Also, just because it looks good, doesn't make it bad UI (plenty of people seem to judge like that).
- andrepd 5y ago>Also, just because it looks good, doesn't make it bad UI That's another thing, material design interfaces are also ugly as sin x)