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Yes, it's getting worse. I inadvertently deleted a bunch of information manually collected out in the field last week from Notes on my iPhone. What was my mis

by bcrl 4y ago

Yes, it's getting worse. I inadvertently deleted a bunch of information manually collected out in the field last week from Notes on my iPhone. What was my mistake? Apparently I reached into my pocket and somehow managed to unlock my phone then delete things. Undo wasn't able to recover the data. 3 hours of data from physical work in the world gone. I miss the old days when the Home button was used to unlock things and you couldn't screw everything up by accidentally touching your phone. I used to be able to listen to my music while driving through areas without cell phone service as my entire music collection was stored on my phone. Now I have to manually download tracks even though my phone has 8 times the storage of the older version. Stripe updated the app recently. It now requires Face Id almost every single time I change screens. Really? How is this "Better" to view read-only information? I tried to take a photo on my iPhone in the dark the other day. I start by turning on the flashlight so I could see what I was trying to photograph. I go into the camera app and the light turns off so I can no longer see what I'm doing. WTF? I used to use Gnome for my Linux desktop. I liked being able to change window decorations, especially for the smaller and more compact window titles and such. That feature got removed. Then the Gnome default icons and such kept growing and taking up more screen real estate. At least in this case I've been able to switch to the far less bloated LXDE. It goes on and on. I feel like the UX designers don't pay any attention to the user experience anymore. Don't get me started on web pages that assume you're on a mobile device when you're on a desktop with lots of screen real estate... <sigh>

AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> It goes on and on. I feel like the UX designers don't pay any attention to the user experience anymore. Oh they do, they pay a lot of attention to how many ads the user experiences.
Zababa 4y ago
> I feel like the UX designers don't pay any attention to the user experience anymore. The worst offender here is android. The clock app especially feels like it's been made intentionally to be terrible. For example, when you delete an alarm, the popup "Alarm deleted" appears at the exact place where the button to delete another alarm will be. You have to move the list of alarms, or if you can't, wait. There is no way to select multiple alarm to delete them at the same time. It's a list but you don't have one of the most basic operations on a list, do something to multiple elements. The UI is getting worse and worse, every few month there's something else that will look ugly, like a massive + button at the bottom center of the screen.
- bcrl 4y ago
  I feel it would benefit users immensely if developers had to sit down and watch users performing tasks in their apps that they find infuriating. It's not like we don't have the technical ability in modern phones / tables for users to be able to submit bugs and complaints within the app. But that would mean making users somewhat more important than the data they provide which can be sold. Users are a cost to be minimized, and UX in present day software makes that abundantly clear.

by bcrl 4y ago

AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago

> It goes on and on. I feel like the UX designers don't pay any attention to the user experience anymore. Oh they do, they pay a lot of attention to how many ads the user experiences.

Zababa 4y ago

> I feel like the UX designers don't pay any attention to the user experience anymore. The worst offender here is android. The clock app especially feels like it's been made intentionally to be terrible. For example, when you delete an alarm, the popup "Alarm deleted" appears at the exact place where the button to delete another alarm will be. You have to move the list of alarms, or if you can't, wait. There is no way to select multiple alarm to delete them at the same time. It's a list but you don't have one of the most basic operations on a list, do something to multiple elements. The UI is getting worse and worse, every few month there's something else that will look ugly, like a massive + button at the bottom center of the screen.

bcrl 4y ago
I feel it would benefit users immensely if developers had to sit down and watch users performing tasks in their apps that they find infuriating. It's not like we don't have the technical ability in modern phones / tables for users to be able to submit bugs and complaints within the app. But that would mean making users somewhat more important than the data they provide which can be sold. Users are a cost to be minimized, and UX in present day software makes that abundantly clear.