Re:The modern OS desktop is a crime against humanity
by wildrhythms on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:03AM
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>The reason for the unholy UX mess with no signs of converging is, of course, marketing [...] [Windows Explorer] thinks "Share with Skype" is the second most important file operation, right after Open.
Well, the reason for this is not 'marketing' solely; what's happening is internally at every gigantic company like Microsoft is teams are competing for users. The 7DAU line must always go up for our little product area (like Skype). So product managers engage in their own internal political wars to sprinkle the damn Skype entrypoint everywhere in hopes that some users will accidentally click on it every now and then and keep that magical 7DAU line going up before they secure their promotion and parachute to the next company and do the same thing.
If a product manager asked the engineers and user experience folks "Should we put a Skype entrypoint in the file manager?" I'm sure they will say "No. But let's look at the data... it also says no."
Well, the reason for this is not 'marketing' solely; what's happening is internally at every gigantic company like Microsoft is teams are competing for users. The 7DAU line must always go up for our little product area (like Skype). So product managers engage in their own internal political wars to sprinkle the damn Skype entrypoint everywhere in hopes that some users will accidentally click on it every now and then and keep that magical 7DAU line going up before they secure their promotion and parachute to the next company and do the same thing.
If a product manager asked the engineers and user experience folks "Should we put a Skype entrypoint in the file manager?" I'm sure they will say "No. But let's look at the data... it also says no."