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>junior designer Well, I guess damn near all designers are junior in 2024! It's getting hard to find software that hasn't been severely fucked up by some "UX
by seabird 3y ago
>junior designer
Well, I guess damn near all designers are junior in 2024!
It's getting hard to find software that hasn't been severely fucked up by some "UX artisan" padding their resume at the users' expense. Windows 11 is a marked step backward (I just love when new options load into my Explorer context menu as I'm trying to click on things). "New" Outlook is quite obviously designed by people that don't use Outlook. Android 12+ and Material You feels like some sick freaks who get off on other people being frustrated got a blank check to do whatever they want. Read this and tell me that the people responsible have your best interests at heart:
https://material.io/blog/announcing-material-you https://material.io/blog/announcing-material-you
>They’re seeking experiences that are more than just practical and functional—experiences that also evoke emotion.
The experience evokes emotion alright! My phone with a 6 inch tall screen can only fit ~3 notifications when I pull the shade down. In that menu, 1.5 inches (25%) of my screen are taken up by setting toggles, and it's not like we don't know how to do better -- Android 11 fit 6 toggles in half the space that this dogshit takes up. There is so much fucking whitespace that reliably making gesture inputs has become a challenge.
I could go on and on and on and on. We're past the point where this is even appealing to the lowest common denominator. I haven't been able to find a single person of any background who appreciates this shit. Modern UX is shameless navel-gazing and at risk of sounding like an asshole, I think the world would be better off if leaders would just let go of the bulk of their design teams once they have a working product. It is laughable that you run into non-power-users that tell you "we had it good with AS/400 greenscreens, but then my company "modernized" my most important tool and it takes me twice as long to do my work".