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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/tumblr
 
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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 6 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

TIL 'old person' means 'having literally any god damn standards and not getting on your knees for corpodaddy at the drop of a hat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
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[–] stratoscaster 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a developer I need to be reigned in when it comes to design. I don’t know shit and have learnt that there are conventions for a reason.

[–] stratoscaster 5 points 7 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

[–] Mango 5 points 7 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.