Re:Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and m...
by Sylos on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:08AM
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What he's referring to is subjective for sure, but for example, the Google Search page has lost a lot of UI-options for selecting different search limitations over the past few years.
One of the least subjectively dumb decisions that they pushed through, was to change the "+"-operator from making a word obligatory to searching for this word on Google+.
This one, I suppose, would go under just straight-up arrogance.
In general, though, I would ascribe it to bigger companies having a higher percentage of graphics designers, as opposed to regular programmers working on the UI.
And well, programmers will generally put more options and things into a UI than your average UI person.
And if you like options and things, then the UI person's UI is subjectively worse.
One of the least subjectively dumb decisions that they pushed through, was to change the "+"-operator from making a word obligatory to searching for this word on Google+. This one, I suppose, would go under just straight-up arrogance.
In general, though, I would ascribe it to bigger companies having a higher percentage of graphics designers, as opposed to regular programmers working on the UI. And well, programmers will generally put more options and things into a UI than your average UI person. And if you like options and things, then the UI person's UI is subjectively worse.