Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason
by unterstrom on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:44AM
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>Wait for the next release and the same guy is probably going to be complaining about changes to the current UI.
Off course he will. It's his point. He alreadey stated that it is not the ui that is bad. It's the practice of constantly changing things for no good reason that is bad.
You're both begging the question of whether this was in fact done for no reason other than to change things. It's rather unlikely that someone at Google spent time and money developing something for no reason – that post would have been interesting if it'd actually discussed why things changed and why the reasoning behind those changes was wrong rather than simply assuming it.
Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason
by sillysaurus3 on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:30AM
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"The future is longer than the past" seems like the perfect excuse to justify pretty much anything.
If you think it through more, it's only about being excessively driven by fear of change. UI changes inspire a lot of reactionary opposition but once you're looking on a perspective greater than minutes or hours, the big problems usually turn out to be less significant than originally claimed.
Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason
by mhurron on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:35AM
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> jbb555 10 minutes ago
>Yeah and too many times when you complain about this kind of thing you get accused of "hating change" or some such thing. No, I hate THIS change because THIS change is bad!
> acdha 4 minutes ago
> This happens every time something changes. Wait for the next release and the same guy is probably going to be complaining about changes to the current UI.
How appropriate that these two comments were at the top of the page. That's it, there is the whole discussion in a nutshell.
One phrase I hear a lot is “The future is longer than the past”. It's relevant here as well – spending all of your time worrying about existing users have to spend a couple minutes getting used to a new keyboard design isn't a good reason not to make improvements which will benefit the millions of people who will never use the old one.