Journal jez9999's Journal: This is how I've felt about UX 'design' for ages now. 3
I just had to highlight this post I came across; it pretty much pretty hit the nail on the head with what pisses me off about the whole UX thing:
If I have to guess what to do, the GUI lost its purpose. May as well just go back to DOS
The purpose of the GUI is to keep UX designers employed. The year 24-bit color becomes standard, XP's Fisher-price look is "needed" to make that boring and stodgy NT/2K look go away. The year 3d graphics appears on commodity hardware, Aero is "needed" to make that "childish" XP look go away. The year touchscreens come out, Metro is "needed" to make that "distracting" 3D glossy look go away.
Same sorta deal with Firefox - a few years ago, a browser with lots of options and user control was a good thing. Now it's "distracting" and even the status bar and the name of the communications protocol in the title bar needs to go away to make it "clean".
It's not UX design, it's fashion design. Bunch of artistes wanking away on Photoshop trying to out-trendify each other. It's an utter waste of computing resources, and I'm sick of it.
Exactly. Everyone involved in app development needs to read this and decide whether they want to hire ANYONE who is a self-professed "UX person".
Did your forget the link to the OP? (Score:2)
I don't see it.
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He forgot.
This is it: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2861395&cid=40051257 [slashdot.org]
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Oops yeah I forgot. Thanks. :-)