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Only for UI designers who put aesthetics before usability.
by squarefoot 4y ago
Only for UI designers who put aesthetics before usability.
- toss1 4y agoIOW, for most UI designers on current software products. Very few changes I see these days actually improve anything; they are merely change for the sake of providing evidence to justify the UI designers' salaries. If something already works, and we know how to use it, there had better be a damn good reason for changing it, because you are burdening thousands, millions, or even billions of people with yet another entirely unnecessary learning task in our already over-stressed lives. We are far past the time when the new version of X will be seen by orders of magnitude more users than the previous version, so it'll be only the minority that have to relearn, and the majority will enjoy the improved UI (assuming that the new stuff is actually an improvement; BIG assumption). Today, most of it will burden existing users. You want to make the colors prettier, add a dark/night mode, round the corners, highlight things a bit better? Wonderful. Just don't mess with the organization.
- VyseofArcadia 4y ago> Just don't mess with the organization. And don't mess with discoverability and ergonomics. I hate buttons that don't look like buttons, controls littering the title bar so that I can't use it to move the window, etc etc