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Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by corrral on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @01:20PM (#32073058)
> STOP CHANGING THINGS! Even if the new UI is better (debatable), some people just like or rely on a particular layout to operate the device or app. Don't rearrange without giving a ~permanent setting to use the old layout.

The fact that we're 15 years into smartphones being popular and that phones & computerized address books were basically fully-solved interfaces long before those took off, and they're still fucking around with phone app UI in big ways, is a sign of some kind of institutional or industry-market failure to me. Or both. Allowed, I suppose, because Google's market position (i.e. monopoly across several markets) both gives them the surplus profit (i.e. rents) to fuck around and waste money on harmful to users crap like phone app redesigns, and insulates them from any actual threat to their profit due to those bad choices.

Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by thatguy0900 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:23PM (#32073856)
Well, all of these companies employ teams of ui and ux designers. They will never show up to work one day and tell their boss the ui is done. No matter how perfect the design currently is
Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by cupofpython on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:55PM (#32074231)
of course not. that's the responsibility of the company management to say "okay UI is good lets divert resources elsewhere"