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Good. Should have happened earlier. The old one wasn’t perfect in any way. It could have been modernized slowly over the years instead of adding a new incomplet
by alkonaut 2y ago
Good. Should have happened earlier.
The old one wasn’t perfect in any way. It could have been modernized slowly over the years instead of adding a new incomplete one. The jump between them becomes very jarring. But the new one has felt like a toy presumably because the old one could handle those grown-up jobs.
But not having search(?), for example, makes the old one inferior no matter how familiar, dense, or “usable” the old one was.
If I type DNS in the settings search then I have to find the DNS settings, it’s that simple. If one version fails this test and one succeeds then the ranking is clear regardless of the rest of the UX.
But mostly I’m just going to come out and say it: I like redesigns and UX design is a feature in itself, while utilitarian design and familiarity is constantly overrated. Never moving anyone’s cheese is just catering to existing users at the expense of new ones.
- kasabali 2y ago> not having search(?), for example, makes the old one inferior no matter how familiar, dense, or “usable” the old one was. Control panel have had a working search function, introduced in Vista. It worked in start menu, too, and was very much polished in Windows 7, before they've introduced any of the "modern" crap.
- alkonaut 2y agoAs I remember that it was only matching bits of text that are displayed in the view and not all text within each panel (such as “gateway”) . E.g as shown here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/90801i7DBC0C373A25E09D https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/imag... I may be misremembering though.