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UI/UX is a fundamentally flawed field for a number of intersecting reasons, most of which boil down to not really distinguishing between when it's doing enginee

UI/UX is a fundamentally flawed field for a number of intersecting reasons, most of which boil down to not really distinguishing between when it's doing engineering, when it's doing psychology, and when it's doing fashion. And these days, on web apps and mobile apps, it mostly does fashion. Fashion must change for the sake of change. To more easily support these frequent changes, more libraries get invented to make doing new things easier. After that, everything in the article makes sense.

csande17 4y ago
> Fashion must change for the sake of change. To more easily support these frequent changes, more libraries get invented to make doing new things easier. The frontend "ecosystem" libraries discussed in the article are also subject to a fashion hype cycle, independently of UI/UX design trends. A lot of them don't actually make anything easier, or don't make rapid design iteration easier at least.
sjtindell 4y ago
I’m not sure fashion feels like the right term. People just assume newer equals better. So they want to use the latest and “greatest”.
- azemetre 4y ago
  This sounds exactly like fashion to me. One just has to look at how often design has changed over the last decade with the many fads and worst UX. I feel like when you have an org of designers they will justify in wanting to redesign everything because why else do you need them? The same can be said for some POs and devs as well IMO.
  - fny 4y ago
    Yup. The most brutal environments I've ever worked in canned design folk very quickly once a cost crunch arrived. Some startups would even can designers first to save cash.
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JasserInicide 4y ago
90% of UI/UX people could disappear overnight and nothing would change. Things might actually get better because they aren't doing a pointless UI overhaul every 6 months.
- woojoo666 4y ago
  Wow this is a big, and dare I say baseless, statement. Consumers want and enjoy good UX/UI. If 90% of UI/UX people disappeared, the 10% that were left would be in such high demand that more people would become UI/UX people and fill the gap. And it's not just enjoyment either, there are plenty of examples where UI/UX make a huge difference in the usability of products

csande17 4y ago

> Fashion must change for the sake of change. To more easily support these frequent changes, more libraries get invented to make doing new things easier. The frontend "ecosystem" libraries discussed in the article are also subject to a fashion hype cycle, independently of UI/UX design trends. A lot of them don't actually make anything easier, or don't make rapid design iteration easier at least.

sjtindell 4y ago

I’m not sure fashion feels like the right term. People just assume newer equals better. So they want to use the latest and “greatest”.

azemetre 4y ago
This sounds exactly like fashion to me. One just has to look at how often design has changed over the last decade with the many fads and worst UX. I feel like when you have an org of designers they will justify in wanting to redesign everything because why else do you need them? The same can be said for some POs and devs as well IMO.
- fny 4y ago
  Yup. The most brutal environments I've ever worked in canned design folk very quickly once a cost crunch arrived. Some startups would even can designers first to save cash.

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JasserInicide 4y ago

90% of UI/UX people could disappear overnight and nothing would change. Things might actually get better because they aren't doing a pointless UI overhaul every 6 months.

woojoo666 4y ago
Wow this is a big, and dare I say baseless, statement. Consumers want and enjoy good UX/UI. If 90% of UI/UX people disappeared, the 10% that were left would be in such high demand that more people would become UI/UX people and fill the gap. And it's not just enjoyment either, there are plenty of examples where UI/UX make a huge difference in the usability of products