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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday October 06 2020, @02:12PM (4 children)
UI designers constantly change things because it's impossible to build a career on "Hey, let's keep things the way they are, they work just fine!"
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DECbot on Tuesday October 06 2020, @07:33PM
Only the lazy ones toss everything out and start over with each version. The truly dedicated designers work tirelessly to find the perfect shade of cauliflower blue on modern monitors necessary to pierce through your eyelids and present you with the most pertinent information on your latest BSOD. It it must be timed just right--long enough to ruin any motivation following the interrupted productive work session, yet short enough to prevent you from recording any useful text that might be on the screen. With all the performance improvements that hardware is capable of, maintaining a balance is difficult.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 07 2020, @12:25AM
Nah, you just gotta sell it, same as anything else. I generally go with something along the lines of "Your users are going to want to torture you, murder you, and train dogs to rape your rotting corpses if you change things around and make it harder for them to do their jobs." Maybe a bit more professionally phrased but that's the general sentiment.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by redneckmother on Wednesday October 07 2020, @11:50AM (1 child)
Mmpff. Reminds me of automotive engineers (sorry, incomplete term - FUCKING engineers). Can't justify existence or continued employment without fucking something up, like making it impossible to change an oil filter without buying a special tool. Also, an easy to access air filter seems to present an opportunity for some whiz-bangy, impossible to use enclosure. Gotta change the locations and designs each year. Never know where they've hidden the fuses... usually in multiple locations, some of which require gymnastics to reach.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Thursday October 15 2020, @12:55AM
All those changes in automative UI were at least arguably justified. Yes, they caused problems - but they measurably decreased costs as well. Decreasing costs is something managers can understand.
UI designers don't decrease costs. Redesigns, even really crappy ones, cost money.
I think in many cases they get their foot in the door by submitting extremely low bids for maintenance, then once they have the contract they try to tell the client that there's a bad case of bit rot and it will be cheaper to reimplement.
Of course their reimplemenation will be buggy as hell and feature incomplete on top of having a UI that qualifies as a crime against humanity; but by the time management notices there won't be any path back.
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