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I think in general we are losing a lot of functionality especially since the phone UIs are slowly creeping into the desktop. Discoverability and consistency are
by rqtwteye 2y ago
I think in general we are losing a lot of functionality especially since the phone UIs are slowly creeping into the desktop. Discoverability and consistency are simply horrible compared to how things worked around 2000. I think it's a huge regression.
I can't wait until somebody dusts off the design principles of Windows 95/2000 or Mac System 7 and will sell this as the new UX paradigm.
- aidenn0 2y ago> I think in general we are losing a lot of functionality especially since the phone UIs are slowly creeping into the desktop. Discoverability and consistency are simply horrible compared to how things worked around 2000. I think it's a huge regression. Indeed. Remember when every icon had a tooltip that told you what it would do? Remember when it shipped with a book that also told you what each thing did? I recently used an app that was a unified phone/pc interface and I was pretty sure that somewhere in a list of icons was a thing I wanted, but wasn't sure which. I picked the wrong one and then had to figure out howto undo what I had just done.
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoWho needs to waste time with manuals when you can just Google what you want to do and watch a teenager deliver a three-minute monologue with 15 seconds of actual (but incorrect) content?
- olyjohn 2y agoOr the content was correct at one point, but 3 weeks later the button was moved in some random update.
- rqtwteye 2y agoYeah. Tooltips are a big loss. They would be so easy to implement but nobody seems to care anymore.
- mark-r 2y agoAbsolutely, tooltips were the best. But how do you do tooltips on a touch interface?
- bee_rider 2y agoOh yeah, phone UI infecting desktop design is a real shame as well. These are just different types of devices.