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> I make my living with .Net/C#/WPF, so great job Microsoft, I feel trapped rather than valued. I'm in the same boat. Do you get to design your WPF UIs, or ar
by snarfy 4y ago
> I make my living with .Net/C#/WPF, so great job Microsoft, I feel trapped rather than valued.
I'm in the same boat. Do you get to design your WPF UIs, or are they dictated to you by a UX designer? I hate the UIs I have to develop. I would never use them, but some PM insists they are good design, citing metrics from a broken feedback system that's been gamed to give PMs promotions over honest feedback. The designers don't use the software they are designing, but insist it is good design. Heck they are designing Windows software, using a Mac. Most users are held hostage. I'm convinced if there were actual competition these products would all fail.
- LarryDarrell 4y agoWe get to design the UI ourselves, but we use MahApps[1] to make WPF look Metro-ish (which sort of pushes you into a certain direction). Our product is for engineers and scientists who tend to be very opinionated. We do our best, but we end up redesigning based on feedback now and then. We don't have many users, so we don't mind bending over backwards for them. I will say that the constant feedback is how that they love how "modern" our application looks compared to our main competitor. So I try to never ignore the power of that perception, even if it is just a bias. [1]https://github.com/MahApps https://github.com/MahApps