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Re:Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager by xp84 on Friday May 10, 2024 @09:51PM (#40325425)
It’s the animations for me. I know it sounds crazy but I am a little bit angry every time I notice an action that is measurably slower than it needs to be because some “UX designer” (should not even be a job based on the BS I’ve seen) needed to justify his salary by blocking the UI process with a whiz-bang animation. Especially an action I have to do many times in a row, or all day long. I wish I could set the iOS global animation time to 0 like you could do back when you could jailbreak. (And no, reduce motion doesn’t help, it just replaces them with crossfades but still wastes the same amount of time)
Re:Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager by thfuran on Friday May 10, 2024 @09:55PM (#40325445)
>“UX designer” (should not even be a job based on the BS I’ve seen)

UX design is a real and valuable discipline, but it has been largely supplanted by what amounts to a fashion show.

Re:Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager by xp84 on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:44PM (#40339351)
Precisely. I’d rather go back to plain old UI, informed by the decades of experience we have with what is usable, and give these fad-chasing artists an island somewhere where they can screw around in Figma all day long without access to anyone who can build anything from their mocks.