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The issue is really that "Usability" in the sense of "helping people achieve their goals" isn't really a priority for most of these vendors. When they talk abou
by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 3y ago
The issue is really that "Usability" in the sense of "helping people achieve their goals" isn't really a priority for most of these vendors. When they talk about "usability" they really mean: engagement, retention, distinctive branding, and optimising for whatever KPIs are important for their business.
Then there are the economic pressures of supporting multiple platforms, so you get shit like Electron and PWA where for a fraction of the price you can present the same semi-usable interface on different platforms - where it looks like your signature style but doesn't look like any other apps on the platform.
- strix_varius 3y ago> optimising for whatever KPIs are important for their business. Or, for their promo packet. "Our usability research showed that our UI redesign was not worth the cost to the users" is a sentence I've never heard in fifteen years of software development. But I have seen dozens of decks that include a slide of hand picked quotes from a small sample of test users extolling the virtues of the presenter's Q3 project.