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You are talking to a user, and just dismissed his points without addressing anything by vaguely gesturing to other hypothetical users. You see, as a developer
by surgical_fire 2y ago
You are talking to a user, and just dismissed his points without addressing anything by vaguely gesturing to other hypothetical users.
You see, as a developer I use things such as laptops, IDEs, spreadsheets and so on. They are all meaningfully worse nowadays because of something I consider a cardinal sin of design - "style over substance". In order to make things look pretty and sleek, functionality and usability is sacrificed.
Like it or not, you are the one speaking from a position of privilege, defending the indefensible by issuing non-statements, and disregarding valid points brought fourth by users.
- groby_b 2y agoThis. So much this. And this extends far beyond developers. Talk to actual users, ask them what they actually think about modern UI. And then don't dismiss it as "learning effect" or "change aversion" or "requires habituation", but actually listen. Moderny mystery meat UIs are not as much of a success as thought leaders proclaim.