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> I have come to a funny realisation recently. It's not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it's the UIs which are becoming worse. We've hit peak usability ab
by jfim 3y ago
> I have come to a funny realisation recently. It's not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it's the UIs which are becoming worse.
We've hit peak usability about twenty years ago, in the Windows 2000 era. The screenshot in the article is actually from about that era, it's one of the early 10.x (10.3 I believe) OS X releases.
- masswerk 3y agoArguably, Snow Leopard was peak interaction design. Just for the highly functional visual grouping of elements. (MacOS has drifted off from this quite a distance, since.)
- eadmund 3y ago> Arguably, Snow Leopard was peak interaction design. System 7 or 8, methinks. Clean, cool and collected.
- agloe_dreams 3y agoToday in HN: A billion armchair rants about Windows 2000 being the best UI forgetting just how much it actually sucked at usability or accessibility features.
- steve1977 3y agoI'll have to admit that I don't know about its accessability features, but I was at least as productive in Windows 2000 and XP as I am in todays systems.
- hulitu 3y agoIn Windows 10 i lost a lot of time because of UI bugs: double click registered on single mouse clicks, UI elements dissapearing when connecting monitors, no scrollbars, no window border, no titlebar.
- JohnFen 3y agoIt's possible that people remember how much it sucked, but they also recognize that the UI sucks even more now.