> aesthetics/artistic sense of UX designers is absoutely trumping usability in very many modern applications Indeed. And I get totally stupefied by how much fr

> aesthetics/artistic sense of UX designers is absoutely trumping usability in very many modern applications Indeed. And I get totally stupefied by how much freedom and authority they are given in relation to the other people supposed to provide inputs for the project. My stock broker did that. They had a web app that didn't just work -- it was acknowledged as very good. Fully customizable, you could open many sub-windows and monitor an arbitrary number of quotes depending on your strategy. The screen could turn into a mess, but it was your mess, and that's ok as long as it made sense to you, the user. I used their web app for more than a decade. Last year they replaced it by something they have the guts to call "the enhanced experience". That fuming pile of sh*t enforces a certain geometry for the screen that makes it absolutely clear that the kids who designed that garbage never traded stocks in their lives. But what scares me most is: what the hell the managers who approved that crap had in their minds?