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This. I've had so many projects where I wish someone who really cared about UX could just tell me "this sucks, if you want I can help"
by petterroea 8mo ago
This. I've had so many projects where I wish someone who really cared about UX could just tell me "this sucks, if you want I can help"
- flykespice 8mo agoMany programmers think they can cheat their way into designing a good UI, they just think it's just enough for you to learn and use a GUI framework, and place the widgets in a "good enough" way. Just look at the monstruosity that is the GUI version of wget, it's the epitome of programmers with no UX background trying to make a GUI application.
- catgirlinspace 8mo agothere’s a gui for wget??
- jeffreygoesto 8mo agoHandbrake ;)
- joymonger 8mo agowget is a download CLI tool. Handbrake is a video transcoder. I feel like I'm missing something, or just missed the joke lol.
- yonatan8070 8mo agoI Googled screenshots of "wget gui" and "handbrake software", both are GUI programs with a whole lot of dropdowns, checkboxes, etc. Maybe that's the meaning of the parent comment?
- ValentineC 8mo agoHandbrake is aesthetically better, if slightly less powerful compared to MeGUI, but MeGUI is usable if one doesn't mind reading through some video encoding guides. Whatever came before MeGUI was likely much worse.
- eloop 7mo agoYep, web browsers.
- flykespice 7mo agoyes https://www.jensroesner.com/wgetgui/wgetgui.png https://www.jensroesner.com/wgetgui/wgetgui.png
- catgirlinspace 7mo agothat is horrifying.
- lukan 8mo agoI suppose if someone thought this, they would not have dared saying it? Many do make horrible UI, but would react poorly to criticism, hard to know before ..