absolutely agree with your gripes with the Economist app. I use it every day. Confuses the hell out of me.
The old android app was terrible too because of frequent crashes.
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I mean, the worst offender is Windows itself, and by far the most critical to everyday user experience. The trend started with Windows 8 and continues to this day. And if someone brings up "improved security" as a benefit of more modern Windows systems, then they pretty much immediately concede the argument, because it's really not the job of the end-user machine to provide you with enterprise grade security. Nor is…
In terms of pure UI, I agree. There were a few peaks in Windows UI/UX: 3.0, 98, XP, and Windows 10. Since then, the trend has been toward more and more bloat. But, if the long-term trend continues, maybe Windows 15 will clean things up again. :)
Just casually skipping over the highest peak (Windows 7) I see...
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#433Enterprise stuff is also guilty of that. I'm a sysadmin and the amount of times Office 365 security admin pages has changed in the last year's is madening. AWS's UI sucks hairy balls (e.g.: security group links) but at least is stable.
AWS's UI not only sucks it takes so much time to get work done.
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#434Gmail is a very good example of a finished app being tinkered with. No one asked for Meet to be integrated. There was already a good app for Meet. Then came Chat and Rooms!!
Well, it is Google. The engineers are so starved for opportunities for promotion that they've created at least one new chat platform per year for a decade.
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> Spotify has pretty great radio/recommendations if you even bother to use those features. The radio feature used to be a fantastic tool for exploration. Now it just feeds you your existing music preferences.
I agree about the radio, but "similar artists" is still pretty reliable ime.
Yeah, that's the only thing that still works decently. Song radio and custom playlist radio feed you into your own preferences.
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Spotify has a lot to work on. Integrations with new devices is a big one. They recently added support for streaming songs directly on the Apple Watch but are still yet to support saving them locally to play offline if you don't have your phone. New required features like this are constantly popping up. As well as other infinitely big tasks like optimizing all of their server side software to support and ever increasi…
To be fair to Spotify, Apple Watch development is pure hell, and I wouldn't expect them to ever implement that feature. On the other hand, the LG TV app for Spotify doesn't support gapless playback, which completely blows my mind.
I have finally got the option to test “Download to Apple Watch”, so only took Spotify 2-3 years after the feature was made available? Not sure if it’s widely available yet
Had to buy the 4G version last time though, as Apples podcast and Music app is horrible at downloading, and Overcast was not much better.
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#437Google Maps on iOS comes to my mind after reading this article. The amount of unnecessary stuff Google has lately stuffed in there has crippled the app to and has slowed it down even on my iPhone 11. I miss the fast and no-nonsense Maps app from 5ish years ago when it used to "just work".
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I hope people will use Spotify as a case study in how to fuck up a UI over time. The service itself is fine, I quite like some of the music it finds for me on discover, but the UI is on a slow death march towards complete uselessness, and some features have always been hopelessly broken (queuing). From a business standpoint I find it fascinating. It's about as perfect as an example it gets of "if it ain't broke, don'…
I hope there's some UI/UX designers that can explain this to me. It often appears that design changes are changed just to change. Doing things like changing the clock from right to left (Android). Moving a bar that's existed to another location (Spotify). Removing color hints (Signal). And so many other things. Things that basically your users have been trained to look at and then need to be retrained. Removing hinti…
Product Management and/or Sales & Marketing are likely to own the decision.
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#439This made my day;
`No PM in history has ever said “This seems to be working pretty well, let’s leave it the way it is.”`
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#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope people will use Spotify as a case study in how to fuck up a UI over time. The service itself is fine, I quite like some of the music it finds for me on discover, but the UI is on a slow death march towards complete uselessness, and some features have always been hopelessly broken (queuing). From a business standpoint I find it fascinating. It's about as perfect as an example it gets of "if it ain't broke, don'…
> It's about as perfect as an example it gets of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Music player UI is a solved problem. At some point they should've just said "welp, don't need a UI team any more" and just never touched it again, but that would mean people admitting they don't really serve much purpose This makes sense in the short term but what happens when UI design passes you by and all your competitors look slee…
This is the dumbest comment I have read in a long time.