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Re:Google News to be revamped, incorporate YouTube videos an... by hedora on Sunday May 06, 2018 @12:12PM (#17006906)
UI quality is not subjective; decades of research have gone into quantifying user interface quality, and also into proving that the resulting metrics reflect reality.

Dismissing this entire field of work is like saying “Structural integrity is subjective. Bridges gotta fall eventually, and geology is hard, so why bother?”

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Re:Google News to be revamped, incorporate YouTube videos an... by abadaba on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:28PM (#17007271)
But quality criteria is subjective on an individual basis. Individuals place varying weights on aspects of a user interface. Some prefer speed over aesthetic, some prefer whitespace over information density, etc.

The quality criteria among one demographic may differ from the quality criteria among another. So I think it’s safe to say that a company can optimize its UI quality for a certain demographic, and that demographic may not include certain individual users.

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