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> Gen Z who are used to simple, powerful technology with simplified apps and UIs? why would they/should they put up with legacy UX and ways of working? I disag
by dogleash 1y ago
> Gen Z who are used to simple, powerful technology with simplified apps and UIs? why would they/should they put up with legacy UX and ways of working?
I disagree with the premise. The modern UIs are rife with more special cases, hidden gestures and non-transferable knowledge than the old “one mouse button is enough” or even early windows’ ugly but constant model. Gen Z has harder UI, over a superficial simplicity that is really just a constrained interaction space.
The problem for zoomers is now when they use a deep interaction model, the new complexity of UI becomes a frustration multiplier rather than fixed cost.
- epistasis 1y agoThat and the visual language is so ambiguous and slapdash. Discovery is so much harder these days. And with every changing widget layouts, it's so hard to have a spatial memory if where to interact! Word in Windows 3.1 was far easier.