• aname@lemmy.one
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    8 months ago

    My old person trait is that UI shouldn’t change unexpectedly when you are trying to click or touch something.

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      8 months ago

      it should not change unexpectedly, period.

      I don’t want to install an update and have the ui completely change on me because some dev wanted to pad out his resume by starting a new project on the fresh-framework-of-the-day.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Yes.

        Pointless UI changes are a fucking atrocity, cause they are always more complicated and more informational overload than the previous design, while being more resource intensive and slower.

        KISS is a motto for a reason. Unfortunately its the stupid people that seem to make the decisions and don’t register that they are the ones KISS is directed at.

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        8 months ago

        Of course it shouldn’t, that’s one of the core principles of UI design, but these days it does anyway so it is an old person trait now

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      8 months ago

      Right? I wait for everything to load and snap into place and then I touch my screen. SIKE! it’s got one more button to put under my finger that instant.

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      8 months ago

      I feel like this is a product of a lack of UX team or outsourcing it. When engineers are left to make a UI… they make what works (barely), not what is easy to use…

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          8 months ago

          Especially when you’re given a deadline where you know that you can’t afford to spend 10-20% of the time designing the interface lol