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Why is UI design backsliding? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Why did UI's turn from practical to form over function?

E.g. Office 2003 vs Microsoft 365

Office 2003

It's easy to remember where everything is with a toolbar and menu bar, which allows access to any option in one click and hold move.

Microsoft 365

Seriously? Big ribbon and massive padding wasting space, as well as the ribbon being clunky to use.

Why did this happen?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lots of companies don't have internal IT departments, and regularly get swindled by 3rd party IT companies (read: licensed Microsoft/Google salespeople) to switch over their entire systems from one or the other, productivity be damned.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I'm ashamed to say I used to work for one. How do you like having licenses to use your printer? I might have enjoyed it even if only I were a sadistic personality type.