Software UI/UX Criticism
The cluster focuses on criticisms of poor user interfaces and experiences created by developers, debates on the need for professional UI/UX designers, and why software projects—especially hacker tools, system software, and open source—prioritize functionality over polished design.
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You need to redesign your code architecture to fit the UI or you wont get a world class UI. That isn't what happens though, instead they hook in UI interactions so it looks like the designs but doesn't really work as well as you'd wish. I've never seen a developer who gladly did the architectural redesigns needed to make UI truly great.
Was there anything preventing the development of a less hacker-focused UI, save lack of reason to do so?
System project tends to have bad UI because system programmers live in terminal.
More UI than UI/UX. I'd prefer a UX expert overall, it would at least imply a reasonably decent UI.
Everyone is struggling to create AI tools. And just because you don't approve of how they spend time to make their UI look "fancy", doesn't really mean much. You are not a normal user/customer.
It's a case of developer UI. Has nothing to being "allergic" to "good UI design".Being able to design something friendly to the average user, yet powerful enough to be friendly to power users, is a very difficult task to accomplish.Developers understand the latter quite well, I think, as they themselves are power user-types. The former... well, that requires having dedicated designers who know how the average user thinks, as well as perhaps guinea pigs in the form
Why is writing a better UI a waste of time?
the people that design UI/UX is not the same people that write software
Programmers don't mind "programming", but most people don't want that UI.
UI development is not a democratic process.