Gregory's Server@grishka Why don't cars look the same as they did in 1950?
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  Down10, UX is how it works. UI is mostly about how it looks. Modern gigantic, overly spacious UIs work mostly the same as the older ones. They just look more terrible. The Firefox redesign in particular improved literally nothing. It's purely change for the sake of change. Down10, the old one looked good, too. It also got the job done perfectly fine. I'll ask it more straightforward: what was the exact problem Mozilla was trying to solve with this particular redesign?  Let me put it another way, Grishka. A more direct way. They redesigned Firefox to be in line with modern aesthetics to be appealing to the vast majority of the existing and potential user base, not fringe weirdos like you.  You're right. There's no reason for me to be rude. But Grishka expecting time to stand still just to suit his non-mainstream tastes is unrealistic. That being said, Grishka could just continue to use the old version or fork it and update it himself. That's more likely than having a mainstream product never get a visual makeover. Bradley, "modern aesthetics" is like fashion. It brings no practical benefits whatsoever — it's change for the sake of change in its purest form. |
Bradley, to be honest, modern cars are all very same-looking and generally uninteresting. 1950 cars look cooler than modern ones. In the specific case of cars, however, I'd imagine there are way too many design decisions dictated by safety requirements. Steering wheels in particular are all ugly, but that's because they're now required to contain an airbag. But that's an okay tradeoff to make — I, for one, enjoy being alive more than anything else.
UIs however? What has changed since 1999? People still use a keyboard and a precise pointing device to interact with their computers. Screens are no longer CRTs and can be bigger and with more densely packed pixels thanks to technological advancements. Yet none of this calls for UI changes. When someone has bought a 27" monitor, they didn't do so to look at all your fonts that are readable across a room, glorious whitespace and unnecessary shadows. They did so to be able to fit more information on the screen. And those touchscreen laptops? No one uses the touchscreen with any kind of seriousness anyway. It's a marketing gimmick. It's definitely not something to redesign your UIs for.
Bradley, to be honest, modern cars are all very same-looking and generally uninteresting. 1950 cars look cooler than modern ones. In the specific case of cars, however, I'd imagine there are way too many design decisions dictated by safety requirements. Steering wheels in particular are all ugly, but that's because they're now required to contain an airbag. But that's an okay tradeoff to make — I, for one, enjoy being alive more than anything else.