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Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by moffkalast on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:40AM (#31846176)
> reliability, low cost, and easy to use

Sounds about right. These days it's all about things lasting about 2 minutes so they're cheap to manufacture, as pricey as possible to seem designer or premium, and hardly any time spent on making good UX at all.

Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by moomoo11 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:22AM (#31846397)
> good ux

Worse is when some UX designers decide to improve a product that works well as it is only to make it worse and convoluted. This has been my experience more often than not, and my solution is to simply stop using such products. It sucks.

Re:“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get... by twistedpair on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:53AM (#31848360)
Change for the sake of change.

I'm often a power user. I know all the features and shortcuts of the tools I use. All too often, these get removed. I recall being on a feedback call with a UX study, and complaining about a feature I use, and many friend use, that was recently deleted from the product. "Oh, no one uses that" was the response from the UX/PM.