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Spotify. These days it's so hard to organise or browse your own music collection.
I keep hearing this but I find Google Play Music to be way, way worse.
Or are you saying the bar is: "as long as there's something worse"
Digg's downfall started with a redesign: https://www.fastcompany.com/1690829/digg-redesigns-loses-mor...
One point: >Are there things my users really don’t need to see right now? If you don’t know, ask! ASK! ASK! ASK! For the love of god please ask your users. I worked for a company with a big clunky enterprise app. It got redesigned numerous times and rolled out with big fanfare. Nobody who used for any significant amount of time was involved in any of the redesigns. It was horrible every time with numerous changes jus…
Yes, we know, THE DESIGN IS BROKEN.
And then, nothing. New features come out though, most of which aren't needed or deprecate features that we actually like. So I'm sure some Project Manager is being paid handsomely.
Re: Everyone agreed it needed modernization—it looked like it was from the early 2000s, after all! My goodness, Flintones even. The fashion chase is becoming obsessive and wasteful. As I've ranted about many times on HN, UI faddism is a huge time and resource drain and the industry should just say no or see a therapist. It sounds strange, but desktop UI's around 2000 pretty much reached the pinnacle of business UI's.…
And remember to use Angular or React... actually, now you must use Vue. And create polyfills for your webpacks (and vice versa).
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What made you switch to development?
The industry I worked in was networking (data center products, routers for ISPs, etc), but technical support. I did that for 20 years. Even though it was pretty high end stuff.... everyone hates technical support and I found that generally companies eventually devalue it as time goes on. I got tired of that system. I got paid really well but just got tired of seeing the atmosphere at company after company get more ne…
> Users absolutely hated the new system. I feel like this is a universal absolute, doubly so when it comes to enterprise apps (the lone exception being when we switched from Lotus Notes to Gmail -- then only half the company hated the change). I would've liked to know how long the changes were in place and how it affected productivity metrics, especially the amount of training time spent on new users. As is, the arti…
> This also makes me question the veracity of the article.
Personally I thought the opposite, I find it a fantastic quote from the article as it exactly describes the problem:
Things that used to take a single click taking multiple clicks with slow animations between them because "design" and information not anymore visible on one page even though the human visual system is very well optimized to deal with that vs waiting for multiple screens.
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Yes exactly. CL is probably my favorite website on the internet, for the sheer reason that they have virtually not changed at all since they first launched over 10 years ago. It's fairly incredible. I can't think of another website that has done that.
CL is only ten years old? I always figured it was from the 90s — maybe a bias originating from the design.