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>Understanding the target audience for your product results in very different design decisions This is an excuse. Just add an option to sort both ways. It isn'

>Understanding the target audience for your product results in very different design decisions This is an excuse. Just add an option to sort both ways. It isn't hard. There is no target audience in this planet that benefits from less options or less features. Even if you had the features under an "advanced mode" UI that's still a better software than not having the feature in first place. Have people forgotten the 80/20 rule? Most features will be used by only a small slice of users, that doesn't mean they're out of scope. Sorry, I'm just kind of exhausted of software not being able to do the most obvious things because it didn't align to some perfect vision of how the user should be.

pteraspidomorph 1y ago
> There is no target audience in this planet that benefits from less options or less features. I'm currently involved in UI design and, to my frustration, adding more options or features seems to send a vocal minority of the user base into a foaming-at-the-mouth violent rage. It's like any change resets the entire contents of their brain, and it's our fault we're making things so confusing for everyone... And let's not get started on how we're wasting time adding things that they don't personally need, and therefore no one could possibly need, ever. No, clearly by adding this sorting method, we must have directly stolen development time from the feature they want, which is a personal attack directed at them and every member of their family going three generations back.
- bmn__ 1y ago
  It is best to not engage with these demons. KDE welcomes configurable complexity, Gnome deemphasises it. I am glad that broad user choice exists.
- efreak 1y ago
  > any change resets the entire contents of their brain That's because it does. Consistency is incredibly important. The problem isn't that you're adding a feature, the problem is that you're adding a feature in an obtrusive way. Add as many features as you like (while preserving performance), but keep the day-to-day UI as stable as you possibly can. Place entry points (buttons) for new features in menus first, and make sure they're both used frequently and by many users before moving them to a crowded toolbar (and then give good thought about where it belongs on said toolbar/menu). Don't remove features unless they're truly problematic, and don't change UI.

pteraspidomorph 1y ago

> There is no target audience in this planet that benefits from less options or less features. I'm currently involved in UI design and, to my frustration, adding more options or features seems to send a vocal minority of the user base into a foaming-at-the-mouth violent rage. It's like any change resets the entire contents of their brain, and it's our fault we're making things so confusing for everyone... And let's not get started on how we're wasting time adding things that they don't personally need, and therefore no one could possibly need, ever. No, clearly by adding this sorting method, we must have directly stolen development time from the feature they want, which is a personal attack directed at them and every member of their family going three generations back.

bmn__ 1y ago
It is best to not engage with these demons. KDE welcomes configurable complexity, Gnome deemphasises it. I am glad that broad user choice exists.
efreak 1y ago
> any change resets the entire contents of their brain That's because it does. Consistency is incredibly important. The problem isn't that you're adding a feature, the problem is that you're adding a feature in an obtrusive way. Add as many features as you like (while preserving performance), but keep the day-to-day UI as stable as you possibly can. Place entry points (buttons) for new features in menus first, and make sure they're both used frequently and by many users before moving them to a crowded toolbar (and then give good thought about where it belongs on said toolbar/menu). Don't remove features unless they're truly problematic, and don't change UI.