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The biggest problem - across a lot of fronts - was that we abandoned the idea of consistency and rooting these things in research. The original success of the M
by rodgerd 5y ago
The biggest problem - across a lot of fronts - was that we abandoned the idea of consistency and rooting these things in research. The original success of the Mac interface was rooted in the HIG which provided rigorous, clear, and (at least sometimes) evidence-based principles for UI/UX. Sun paid a bunch for work to be done on the GNOME 1.x series at one point, to try and significantly improve it.
The HIG is no more at Apple. GNOME design decisions are justified with comments like "I asked some friends and they liked this better". Most of the pain in Windows 10 are all the jagged edges where you cut from one era to another for no particularly good reason.