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