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You think apps should never change their interface.. ever?

• gambiting 3y ago
  I think Google especially does it way too often. But I think to maybe make my argument more precise - I think it's fine if apps do iterative improvement of the interface. But what I see way too much of is "we've rolled out the new version of our interface, enjoy!" and they completely changed the theme, button positioning, names of functions, half of the old stuff is missing.....and that's just it, you have no recourse, no way to roll back other than installing dodgy APKs from somewhere. To give a simple example - TP-Link had a very well designed Kasa app for their smart devices, one day a new interface rolled out, breaking my presets, the interface is dog poop, some functionalty is actually missing - I sent them a long email explaining all of this, they just said "thanks, we'll think about it" and nothing happened. So yes, in that case I'd rather that this app literally never ever changed - there was nothing wrong with it, but of course some designer somewhere has to justify their continious employment so they roll out these interface changes to basically have a job. I'm sick of it.