Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by hasbot on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @12:30AM (#14039656)

I was a Swing developer (and loved it). Distributing Swing applications was never a major issue. The issue was that once the web hit, all my co-workers wanted to do web applications and convinced management web was where it was at.

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by kpil on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @01:09PM (#14043659)

I specifically mean such a simple thing that they have used the .jar file extension both for executable jars and plain archives of files.

If they had defined and promoted using .jxe as the file name extension for executable jars, there had been so much less confusion for the end users.

(Just like they have done with ear, war, rar, etc)

Also, the security considerations for java web start applications where rather strange, with ugly icons warning that you were running a java application etc, and much higher requirements for certificates and signed executable compared to just about everything else that you run on a computer.

If they had re-imaged the framework to use a "installation" and providing automatic updates, just like normal applications, they could have lowered the bar a little.

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by pjmlp on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:43AM (#14040208)

I have been both side of the fence, and when I have the freedom to choose which projects I apply for, projects with native UIs always win my heart.

Personally I think it was a good move to go back into native UIs, right about the time people were starting to adopt Angular.

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