Why has ui gotten worse?

[Madre Muerte]

I have been continuously aggravated by by bloated "modern" web designs where every website uses the same artstyle and is bloated beyond all hell. The internet at large has noticed at and complained, but it keeps spreading to more websites. Why hasn't there been a reversion to web design similar to 2005-2012? With the recent boom of neocities and web 1.0, I assume companies would be a least looking to experiment with it.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Pandering to soys and the severely autistic

 

[OfficerBagget]

Because all UI work is usually outsourced to the same tech comapnies based in Korea and India

 

[No Exit]

Pandering to normies tablet/phone users and just being too lazy to make a decent ui for anyone with working eyes.

 

[Bongocat]

Mobile. Everything is optimized for mobile because fuck desktop users.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Because you touch yourself.

 

[vulg]

20 seconds

hour: the real redpill is why has UI design remained stagnant for almost 3 decades.

 

[The Real SVP]

Women and Indians.

 

[Ponchik]

because someone poisoned the water supply and turned the frickin' frogs gay

 

[Milkis]

Because I have a fuckwad designer telling me what to do now from some stupid fucking "single source of truth" design website where she can decide that the various components of the site should be in totally different orders at every single fucking breakpoint (mobile, tablet, desktop). And (this is a VERY IMPORTANT requirement) the spacing between the social media share buttons has to be different depending on which page you're on, it's 10 pixels on some pages and 5 pixels on others.

And she left the design just vague and mismatched to the backing data enough that today, after my 1.5k-line PR passed code review, she was able to have a miraculous change of heart on every single detail I had to guess her intent on, which sentiment she delivered to me, of course, in a public Slack channel as if I was the imbecile for not looking at the design website. As is de rigeur at this point I asked several inocuous questions about possible lacunae in the designs she had provided, and how I should have interpreted them, which is not so much for her benefit - as she is incapable of recognizing the subtext that I've had it with her shit - but so that my bosses (multiple! like in Office Space!) know that it's not really my fucking fault the feature is delayed.

So it's back to the ol' fucking drawing board for Milkis on Tuesday, and I get to go through ANOTHER round of reviews and testing and wrestling with WordPress and our CDN's completely random cacheing behaviour.

TL;DR designers have too much power and the rest of us are forced to move mountains to implement their hallucinations

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Because you touch yourself.

 

[StreetGangsta]

Because they want you to get annoyed by their bland flat designs.

 

[Coffee Shits]

My opinion is that is boils down to a few things, in levels of decreasing obviousness:

(1) "Modern" design is "standard" design. There's no texture to contend with, just colors to swap in and out and placeholders for stock photography. All documents are styled as a set of disconnected templates within a frame with no consideration for how users find the information they want. Navigation bar, hero image, "content" (with sidebar if you're feeling spicy), fat footer, and 14MB of tracking scripts. That's all of modern design, and yes, it's as easy as it sounds. Your "brand new" website is nearly entirely recycled and hacked-together pieces of many, many sites like it. And it's "good enough" to ignore how users navigate the site because they're all coming in from SERPs anyway.

(2) Design documents are dead. You, as the developer, are expected to piece together said frame with a handful of .xd files and loose notation stuffed in a Google doc somewhere on top of a pre-built framework. The final product is schizophrenic, barely held together by whatever plugin was decided to be installed today without testing or consideration for the site as a whole. And as things are haphazardly tacked onto it over time it only gets worse for the end user.

(3) Consideration for reasonable hardware and backwards compatibility is extinct. If you are reading this on a 15-inch screen, you don't exist to the designer. He is using a screen no smaller than 22 inches with a high DPI setting on a fast network connection. When he loads another 3.8MB JavaScript library from his SSD and shoves it into the prototype, your struggling 4G connection or otherwise perfectly good laptop from two years ago is of no concern. When the cookie consent popup appears and inevitably covers the content you came to see, it doesn't matter because 70px of padding on every element is chump change on the designer's ultra-wide monitor. When you can't log in with your iPhone XIII because the the iPhone XV came out fourteen picoseconds ago, you don't matter because the requirements were only to support the latest browser version.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Mobile. Everything is optimized for mobile because fuck desktop users.

If thats the case, why do they still refuse to have decent dark modes? There are still many websites that seemed to be designed with 4:3 aspect ratio in mind, and think that giant blocks of white blank space at the side of every article is the way to go. I've started to get floaters in my vision from reading websites designed like that for long periods.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

Meanwhile linux retards in charge of the GUI think hamburger menus on desktop are the future. The ones who don't are still fellating Windows 95 guidelines.

 

[jimsterlingspronoun]

diversity hires, and if you dare to point out any faults in their design they take it as a personal attack, or may e I just give feedback when they're on their periods.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Mobile. Everything is optimized for mobile because fuck desktop users.

I hate how mobile sensibilities have crept over onto the desktop. On a mobile you can touch the screen/window and drag to scroll. Clicking on PC means something different but the [thing] might not take that into consideration. Maybe you were doing something on screen2, like looking for information to use in the form on screen1, then clicked in the window/tab/whatever on screen1 to shift focus so you can actually type. Which closes the fucking thing and the back button is useless. Or you click outside of something in a tab and the same thing happens.

I sometimes click then freeze up, I know I can't just click, so I hold the mouse button down like the spoon on a handgrenade after accidentally pulling the pin, trying to figure out what the fuck to do.