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Firefox 29 is a Flop; UI Design Trends Only Getting Worse

posted by Woods on Monday May 12 2014, @01:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the at-least-everyone-is-on-the-same-bandwagon dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

Firefox 29 marked the release of the UI overhaul codenamed "Australis" and the jury is back with a verdict: the vast majority of feedback on Firefox Input is negative and traffic to the Classic Theme Restorer add-on has aggressively spiked since Firefox 29 came out on April 29. Considering this is a year and a half after the backlash against the new Windows 8 user interface, it seems that even though the "dumbing down" trends in UI design are infuriating users, they continue to happen. Chrome will soon be hiding URLs, OS X has hidden scroll bars by default, iOS 7 flattened everything, and Windows 8 made scroll bars hard to see. If most users hate these changes, why are they so ubiquitous?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Monday May 12 2014, @01:34PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday May 12 2014, @01:34PM (#42077) Journal

    Because players at the decision table ignore anyone not present [soylentnews.org] and thus any consequence for all third parties.

    Luckily coders can still steam roll UI designers when they get to far out of line.

    In the feature all UI designers will be punished by being forced to use VT100 terminal through a 9600 bps serial line to a mainframe with VMS and a C-compiler. ;-)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 12 2014, @01:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 12 2014, @01:58PM (#42091)

    In the feature all UI designers will be punished by being forced to use VT100 terminal through a 9600 bps serial line to a mainframe with VMS and a C-compiler. ;-)

    That's pretty much what I was doing back in college -- when computers were fun, and you weren't separated from the hardware by thousands of layers of abstractions.

    Can... can I be "forced" to do that? Please? Just don't make me be a UI designer first.

  • (Score: 2) by hubie on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:57AM

    by hubie (1068) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:57AM (#42510) Journal

    If you're using a VT100 on a VAX, chances are you're using FORTRAN. Those Unix guys were always fiddling with C.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday May 13 2014, @03:55AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday May 13 2014, @03:55AM (#42527) Journal

      FORTRAN seems alright (except for system software and speedy stuff). Very norty UI-designers will be put on 75 bit/s teletype printer terminal. And have a 6502 driven mainframe..