Human interface guidelines. We had them and we respected them and it meant every application had a consistent set of basic behavior. By comparison web app usabi

Human interface guidelines. We had them and we respected them and it meant every application had a consistent set of basic behavior. By comparison web app usability is anarchy, and not the good kind. A lot of other people have mentioned that software wasn't scraping the bottom of the revenue barrel by spying on your every move but I'll say it again because I think it's so important. This has been a huge shift in how software is designed and in the incentive structures behind app development. It has pushed the user far, far down the priority ladder, and I look forward to when this period in software history is over. Oh, and ironically, software was faster.