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This just makes me tremendously sad. We collectively forgot how to design good UI.

• edgyquant 5y ago
  The UIs we have today are beautiful and minimal, you are viewing through rose colored classes here.
  • systemvoltage 5y ago
    > beautiful and minimal I am not sure who is viewing using rose tinted glasses. You or me? :-) UI should be functional and as complex as it needs to be. Basically opposite of beautiful and minimal.
    • gbin 5y ago
      Restoring old computers I have been surprised on how much those old UIs sucked bad compared with how I remember them: I love the Amiga but the Amiga Workbench? Horrible with its useless bar minimizing, a button to put a windows on top (how do you put a window on top when the button is covered by another window?!), Only one way to resize a window from the bottom right... Old X window systems: bump the mouse and your focus is gone, it is basically a UI system you need to use from the command line. Atari ST one? One application out of 2 asks you to manually change the resolution to be able to run... From all the ones I tried out from this era, only the Classic Mac feels usable TBH. Don't get me started on the old ball powered mice, they sucked. Even one in a very good working condition and cleaned up is a such a huge pain to use today...
      • hulitu 5y ago
        > Old X window systems: bump the mouse and your focus is gone, it is basically a UI system you need to use from the command line. Haha. Here you got me. In X windows "focus follow mouse" is consistent at least in normal WMs. You should see Windows 10 for a disaster implementation (keyboard focus in one window and mouse focus in another).
  • hulitu 5y ago
    Gray on gray is beautifull ? I agree with minimal. It looks like the developers who add useful features are punished.