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As a developer it can be easy to get defensive about what you build. Criticism can hurt. Users can do unexpected things. Development can be tedious. Take the concerns. Test them. Find a solution. That's what I am doing for interleave.love

Or programmers pursuing vanity interfaces that sacrifice usability for a technical tour de force

YES

Stop me if you've heard this one from me before, but this reminds me of the time there was a problem scanning oranges at my local Giant Corp grocery store for weeks, and the cashier told me they didn't want to fix it because it made things easier for management somehow.

I would get "no one will ever 'just'" as a knuckle tat if I had enough knuckles.

Windows never truly had a good UX. I would agree that Apple used to have one (less and less true as time advance, but still mostly relevant). The problem with Linux is not the OS or its desktop UX. It’s the apps compatibility, and the inconsistency among Linux native ones.

Because people are Windows experts??

Windows UI/UX has gotten really bad and the only thing keeping it standard is professional software compatibility + no major OEM selling laptops with it pre installed. I suspect this will change as EU governments move to Linux to avoid US software.

Player Experience First is a good cultural touchstone.

Exactly! And people have been saying this since 1981!! www.researchgate.net/profile/Dona... It drives me nuts!

This is so true. If it can't be made accessible, then perhaps it shouldn't be made.

I hear the general reason for this is that designers gotta design, and a lot of browser-supplied UI is hard/impossible to style. Can't have things look the same, that'd be too forgettable!

I've also heard excuses like "it's just for admins" and/or "we don't have the time/budget". Your users, even if they are admins, deserve good and accessible tools. And most of the time, in my experience, it's less work to make it accessible than not.

Yep. You'd think that UX, user experience, would be a good way to keep users, but somehow that rarely seems to line up for these people

i no understand

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DearImGui's labels are a perfect example of this. They use a "value:label" layout that virtually everyone finds strange, but the author insists on defending it as "better" for over 10 years instead of providing a simple built-in alternative because it makes some niche same-line layouts harder.

This feature is impossible to implement because it would require our API to return any status codes other than 200 and 500

I feel this in my bones and have probably one way or another fell into this trap. It is difficult to think in the head of the user sometimes. But! Absolutely worth keeping track of these issues and prioritizing them

I was in a startup accelerator once, and they had this convoluted system for booking the conference room. As we were all on site, I sent a group email asking if we could use a paper calendar instead. The guy who coded the system came over and shouted at me about how much time he'd spent building it.

You have to face the reality that sometimes you have worked inefficiently and built bad architecture. If you cannot easily resolve the UX issues that more than half of your userbase is asking about, then you have made mistakes in the work. Admit to that, and do better next time, that's iteration.

Middle. Mouse. Click. Shame on Gnome and Mozilla if true.

This generalizes beyond UX as well! The cost and obstacles you faced building a product do not make it more valuable to the customer. If life worked like this, then we would pay contractors that did worse, less competent work more money, because it was "harder" for them.