Windows 11 update added 'Search' label to taskbar search button

Re:Windows 11 update added 'Search' label to taskbar search ... by whywhywhywhy on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:03AM (#34037704)

If your design team is driven by metrics not vision then why would you offer the option to remove it having a metric saying people don’t like it makes the decision look bad, after all you’re being judged on how much you increase Bing hits.

Really good design can only exist where you’re building to the vision of someone with good and opinionated taste. Building to only metrics is why trash like sign up gates on Twitter/Pinterest etc exist.

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Re:Windows 11 update added 'Search' label to taskbar search ... by rightbyte on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:10AM (#34037765)

> good and opinionated taste

I think that is an oxymoron. Opinionated is just an euphemism for dogmatic and hard to work with person.

E.g. the Go formater that enforces no-tabs or whatever. I don't want the tool to force stuff on me, ever.

Pushing a stupid button and refusing to make the users able to remove it is a typical opinionated design choice.

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Re:Windows 11 update added 'Search' label to taskbar search ... by whywhywhywhy on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:19PM (#34041686)

Opinionated in the sense that you're trying to make the best tool possible and will spend time arguing back when people try and make it worse, like with suggesting the taskbar team focus should be improving Bing search hits metric.

Un-opinionated people will just do what they're told and design trash.

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