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Why do we have such shit UI where it is more difficult to use? I'm sick of the flat look, with having no idea what is a button or a link.

Everything is bundled together with no separation, tabs, buttons, and lists touch each other and you have no idea where the boundaries are until you click it. Or the use of icons that I have no idea what they mean until after I click it.

What we have is a BUI, Brutalist User Interface with this "minimalism" design. I miss the days of having some skeuomorphism.

Why do we have such shit UI where it is more difficult to use? I'm sick of the flat look, with having no idea what is a button or a link. Everything is bundled together with no separation, tabs, buttons, and lists touch each other and you have no idea where the boundaries are until you click it. Or the use of icons that I have no idea what they mean until after I click it. What we have is a BUI, Brutalist User Interface with this "minimalism" design. I miss the days of having some skeuomorphism.

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[–] • 9 pts

I wouldn't care about the look so much if they would just quit moving shit around w no purpose. They just shuffle shit around, make it hard to find and call it an update. Fuck you

[–] • 6 pts

If they didn't move shit, it couldn't be called "new and improved" or "updated".

Besides, moving shit is all pajeets can do. There are very few serious OS coders anymore.

[–] • 4 pts

UI died in the end of the W7 era, I agree.

Modern UI is so flat that not even a lolicon could praise it.

Frankly, I blame it all on the normieization of computing. Back when computers were things that normies avoided, we had more functional and aesthetically pleasing interfaces. Now it is all downgraded to be dumber than even the most knuckle-dragging of normies.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

kind of like a prosperous country being re-normed to its invaders preferences eh?

We have to design stupid now too. I cannot tell you how many times I've created a perfectly good page for inputting some simple business task, like verifying an address on a map, or selecting a type of equipment from a list based on a customer tier.

Example: a form with name, address, one dropdown for a type of hardware, and a checkbox that says 'show unsupported hardware' meaning to allow the user to manuever our edge cases that use equipment that technically isnt supported for them (we dont want a call to the devs everytime they need to wiggle around this, so we let em do it, and it works)

Now I just described a form that youve never seen. I am confident you could be given a set of data and enter it in without issue.

None of the 10 year employees at my work can, I have explained it sooo many times, given pictures, video walkthrus where you can hear me laugh at how simple it is. They cannot do it. The whole world is full retard. I'm scared.

[–] • 0 pt

They can't think. If you can think, you can understand how what you described is a natural bottleneck of information that handles all cases. When you can't think, you can't transform anything, just fill things out in a rote way.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I suspect this is the truth of it.

Doesnt make ya very popular when you tell em tho...

[–] • 4 pts

Reason: iDIOTphones.

[–] • 2 pts

It all started with jewgle going to a flat minimalistic UI, and everyone hailed it as "sooo innovative". Then crapple followed along with ios7, now everyone does it to be "modern".

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[–] • 1 pt

Shell prompt or gtfo

[–] • 1 pt

They got to pay those diversity hires with diversity degrees somehow.

[–] • 1 pt

Red-fag entry to shame you in 5, 4, 3...

[–] • 1 pt

I have no idea what half the symbols on modern app buttons represent. Why can't it just tell me what the button does, with, I donno, words?

[–] • 1 pt

Then they would have to translate those words for the third-world users, whose crap languages would require resizing the UI elements.

In the 1990s, the glyphs that programs used were intuitive. Everyone knew, and still knows, what the Printer icon and the Disk icon do. Android and iOS went full retard and devised glyphs that are not intuitive at all, and the PC scene embraced the retardation.

Even cars in the 1990s had words on their dashboard controls, nowadays most everything (except for entertainment console/radio) is glyphs.

[–] • 1 pt

I like a few glyphs.

Some of the new ones just make zero sense to me.

[–] • 1 pt

I saw some article or video many years ago that claimed there was a conspiracy to dumb everything down to just use common, stock symbols for everything to make it easier for stupid/illiterate people to use. This of course being tailored for the global workforce that may not have any education at all. I wonder about it when I see certain symbols that make no sense to me, like maybe it means something in another culture or country. Just like I'm sure there are people who don't know what a floppy disk is and it's just some weird symbol for save.

[–] • 0 pt

Same here, I don't know what some of them mean. Maybe they're designed to make sense to the billions of third-worlders?

[–] • 0 pt

Yes, this is exactly what I mean. The glyphs on software and even in cars was intuitive. Nowadays I have no idea what some symbols mean.

[–] • 1 pt

I just want to roll back to windows 95 again.

[–] • 1 pt

The world was a much better place in the 1990s.

No one in the 1990s thought that this would be the case, but is there anything all that much better about today than 1999? Or, be pedantic and say the year 2000, since then we'd be past that "Y2K" fearmongering, though even that would be infinitely better than coof culture.

[–] • 1 pt

Before it was hijacked for dumbass normie entertainment purposes, the Internet was a place for free-thinkers, academics, scientists, and philosophers.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

This is the correct answer. Designing for phone screens made it a thing, retarded users on phones then cemented the 'web 2.0' design paradigm.

Designers used to know shit like this was stupid, now its the accepted norm. Doesnt matter if you fight it, since employers will demand compliance (go watch The Fountainhead)

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

In the 90s people pretty much 100% of people, with very few notable exceptions, were happy lemmings for the consumerist society. People were dwelling on ridiculous illusions, while being unwilling to see reality for what it is, and step outside of their comfort zone when being confronted with uncomfortable truths.

At least today they suffer for being such faggots, and are openly abused. Oh, and I'm not saying, that those that came after boomers are any better. They're not. White degeneracy increased with every generation, and whites increasingly deserve the abuse they're receiving.

[–] • 1 pt

I thought the three dots in the corner were part of the design for MONTHS, lol...I am retarded

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah, I thought the same a while ago. I didn't realize those were active, and didn't realize the first icon meant "create post".

[–] • 0 pt

Some things are in some odd spots but I am slowly figuring it out. I do feel "watched" and bigbrothered with the moving of the post. but i also want servants to do my bidding so I am torn. I do hope they start fixing my grammar and spelling so much that i just have to pound on the keyboard with my fists a couple times and then go about my day. A man can dream.

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