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Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by Telaneo »

simonw wrote: post #8
willio58 wrote: post #7

It’s always been interesting to me that multi-million and even billion dollar tech companies don’t have perfect websites in terms of UX. Just last night I was helping my GF set up an ad for her job on LinkedIn. The UX was terrible. Like awful and basic things like save and exit were completely broken. Meanwhile LinkedIn makes what percentage of their revenue through ads? Same with google ads. It’s like these products…

UX is really, really hard - and for some reason still not fully respected as a discipline.

Respect has to be earned, and I don't think anyone (within margin of error) with UX in their job title has earned it. Most of their work consists of shuffling design elements around for its own sake. Sometimes they strike gold (or at least silver or copper), but it never feels like that's done because they target a better design, rather they stumble upon it while making designs whose goal is to be different.

You have to go back to when it was called HIC (Human–computer interaction) to find people who weren't completely brain-dead or ad-pilled when it came to design, did actual work and research trying to make better designs, and thus were at least somewhat respected.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by nemomarx »

HeavyStorm wrote: post #11

This title is misleading: yes, a bunch of users didn't liked it. But of course there's UI research and likely A/B testing showed github that this might be preferable to the majority of users. Personally, I don't like it much. It sounds like leakage from AzDO design. Maybe a option to turn it off would be the best way out. Disclaimer: I work for msft, although I've no connection to github, ado or any other such tool.

Can you actually show us this research and a/b testing?

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by cjbgkagh »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #29
cjbgkagh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Win8 and Metro design disaster is what happens when you give UX free rein, instead of focusing on users they try to start design trends to impress other UX / designers (essential for their career). I wonder how much of Apples design was basically ‘if you confuse Steve Jobs you’re fired.’ And this acted as a necessary governing force to counteract the need to impress peers.

Part of UX is leveraging what users are already familiar with.

100% agree, but that is in contention with the desire to invent something new. As a separate discipline where the career trajectory is determined by peers the user becomes less important.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

xprueg wrote: post #21
chuckadams wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think there is such a thing as perfect UX and I'm not asking for it. I just want them to stop making it worse . Seriously tho, why isn't this something that a browser can do? Why can't I just split a tab and say all links from the left tab open in the right? Why not be able to scroll through history as a list of such panes like a smalltalk browser or file explorer on a mac? Maybe even a history tree, able to…

Just in case you aren’t aware, Edge can split a tab and open links from the left side on the right.

What’s edge ?

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by rochacon »

And they pushed this as every major browser introduced a "Split View" feature...

I get this issue preview on Projects, although I don't like it there either, but as a hook on any issue link is just terrible UX, zero benefits IMHO.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#39

Post by cheschire »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #35
xprueg wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just in case you aren’t aware, Edge can split a tab and open links from the left side on the right.

What’s edge ?

It’s a de-googled spyware app in case you’re looking to diversify your personal information loss portfolio across multiple firms.
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