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Someone can't handle change so bad that they had to write a whole blog post about how upset they are at slightly different UI. I've been on the internet for a

Someone can't handle change so bad that they had to write a whole blog post about how upset they are at slightly different UI. I've been on the internet for a long time and I've seen these kind of complaints in all kind of forms. Comments, forum posts, blog posts, video, podcast. Each time a UI gets updated, people start to write melodramatic pieces about how this ruins it forever and it's the point of no return for the platform. I've heard it when facebook abandoned this UI (https://beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fbpage.png https://beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fbpag...), when youtube changed this homepage (https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/websites/youtube-website/webp/youtube-website%5E2011%5Ehomepage.webp https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/websites/youtube-websit...) and so on. You get the point. When a UI change happens it feels strange, but in hindsight they were right to do it. Designers are not fools, if they are working on a good team (like at Apple) they don't take decisions on a whim. They prototype, they do user testing, the validate ideas and scrap others considering many many many different factors. If you see a design decision, it has been carefully thought out from different perspectives. This assuming that there are actual design team with enough resources behind, which is Apple case. Whatever criticism you have for any design, they have thought about it at least 10 months ago. They know about it and took a decision balancing other 100 aspects and considerations that you are not even aware about.

sz4kerto 4y ago
> Whatever criticism you have for any design, they have thought about it at least 10 months ago. They know about it and took a decision balancing other 100 aspects and considerations that you are not even aware about. Still -- megacorps can and do screw things (like design) up. Regularly. I can't imagine that the best way of exporting a web page as a PDF should be 'long tap on the Print button'.
HenriTEL 4y ago
The real lesson here is that apple can do pretty much anything at this point and the historical users will still stay into their ecosystem (even the author who seems more and more disappointed as the years are passing admits that). Now the younger generation is much more promising in terms of revenues and it already has an iphone so it's very logical to make macOS intuitive for ios users. Providing instant productivity is probably the most valuable thing you can do to those new users from a software perspective.

sz4kerto 4y ago

> Whatever criticism you have for any design, they have thought about it at least 10 months ago. They know about it and took a decision balancing other 100 aspects and considerations that you are not even aware about. Still -- megacorps can and do screw things (like design) up. Regularly. I can't imagine that the best way of exporting a web page as a PDF should be 'long tap on the Print button'.

HenriTEL 4y ago

The real lesson here is that apple can do pretty much anything at this point and the historical users will still stay into their ecosystem (even the author who seems more and more disappointed as the years are passing admits that). Now the younger generation is much more promising in terms of revenues and it already has an iphone so it's very logical to make macOS intuitive for ios users. Providing instant productivity is probably the most valuable thing you can do to those new users from a software perspective.