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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307 I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win1
by smusamashah 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307
I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win10. Starting around Win8, the designers had full control, and most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows.
I spent far too many years of my career sitting in conference rooms explaining to the newest designer (because they seem to rotate every 6-18 months) with a shiny Macbook why various ideas had been tried and failed in usability studies because our users want X, Y, and Z.
- mouse_ 1y agoIt's a "Tyranny of the Marginal User" problem. https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi... Microsoft execs believed nothing could drive Windows users away, because they're addicted, but changes -could- potentially bring in Mac users. So everything was designed by and for Mac users.