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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by api on Monday October 31, 2022 @05:56PM (#33413849)
GUIs have really profoundly regressed. Go ready any UI design book from the 80s or 90s.

As you say the web is a culprit but so is attempting to shoehorn mobile designs into desktop.

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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by worldsayshi on Monday October 31, 2022 @06:45PM (#33414370)
I suppose one way to save the situation would be to build libraries that allowed you to easily build tuis/efficient guis that interact with open-api or graphql endpoints? If there only was a way to encode the workflow in addition to just the apis it could almost be generated.
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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by sippeangelo on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:35PM (#33415891)
Could you recommend some well acclaimed older UI design books? I’m interested to learn what we’ve lost!
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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by jdpigeon on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:53PM (#33415982)
The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin
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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by hasperdi on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:59AM (#33418624)
This is nostalgia, you're remembering things as better than they were. Back then there were so many bad UI in software http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/shame.htm
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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by StillBored on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:18PM (#33446567)
Yes, there were plenty of bad UI's and they got called out on sites like that because of it. If you read some of those "bloopers" you realize that the functionality the guy is complaining about are pretty much the default broken behavior these days. For example: applications that don't honor system colors.

With some OS's you can't even have fine grained control over those defaults anymore. Dark modes have brought some of it back, so its better now than 5 years ago, but still worse than 20 years ago. But people pretend that having a dark/light switch is the same thing as being able to customize the color of just about every layer of the UI and have the vast majority of the applications honor it.

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