Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy

Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by hulitu on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:47AM (#36690852)

> Ah, this is the phrase I see most often when one UX person or team wants to justify throwing out the previous UX person or team's design in order to replace it with their own

And the funny thing is that this process never ends. Every couple of months the UI must be redesigned. They can never settle on one idea.

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:58AM (#36691245)

Thats one difficulty in UI design. Very few people care if a program uses binary trees or hash tables underneath, but everyone and their mother in law have an opinion on the color of buttons and the radius of the corners.

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by wildrhythms on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @06:28AM (#36692546)

This happens because every 2 years (centered around promotional cycles) managerial types will demand a UX study where they ask participants something to the effect of, "On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate [product] on looking modern?" And anything less than a perfect 'modern' (an impossible goal) means the whole thing needs to adapt to whatever god awful design trend is going around.

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:50PM (#36698733)

Asking users to judge a product based on it looking "modern" carries the implication that modern is good.

IntelliJ's new UI is modern, but it's not good.

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