I personally find some of the new UIs harder to use and less accessible especially when they start hiding things, removing context clues, and making hit boxes for windows and scrollbars smaller, etc. Once and a while somebody comes in and throws it all away because they want to push artistic vision (for better or worse). They even used use focus groups to make sure it was usable, but it seems they started taking it all for granted.
UIs have become more and more accessible, UI stands for User Interface… so the more Users an UI supports the more successful it is in it’s goal.Ĭompanies including Microsoft and Apple deserve credit for putting in a lot of research and development for UI standards in the 90s. While old folk go mad trying to get anything done with Metro UI.
It creates interesting situations in which if you show any kid an Windows 95 PC they find it incredibly counter intuitive and wonder how people got anything done with them. That’s why newer iterations of iOS and Android, for example, make their phone Apps look less and less than a traditional land-line discrete phone, and more like a phone directory. So these interfaces tend to be far more data-centered and less concerned with providing a nexus with mechanical real objects whose function we were trying to virtualize via computing. And most of the users are now a generation which has grown with computing as it being a given in all parts of their experience: home, school, work, etc.
Modern UIs are driven by what most of their users demand. Incidentally you using Blender, which has had traditionally a horrible UI, reinforces the point regarding what we find “intuitive” being very contextual in generational and cultural terms.Ī younger person may find the Paint 3D UI infinitely more intuitive, ergonomic and productivity than Blender’s (specially the previous iterations).
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