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1725 points taubek | 2 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.607s | source
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smusamashah ◴[27 Mar 23 13:37 UTC] No.35326531[source]▶
Linking this comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307 that designers at Microsoft use Mac and have been given more power than they should.

   This has been the case for a while. I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win10. Starting around Win8, the designers had full control, and most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows.
   I spent far too many years of my career sitting in conference rooms explaining to the newest designer (because they seem to rotate every 6-18 months) with a shiny Macbook why various ideas had been tried and failed in usability studies because our users want X, Y, and Z.
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1. Sohcahtoa82 ◴[27 Mar 23 19:42 UTC] No.35331348[source]▶
It explains why Win11 feels like the UI/UX is trying to imitate MacOS.

The thing is, it means Microsoft has completely abandoned Windows users that use Windows because it's not MacOS.

IMO, Win7 with the Classic theme was peak UI. It's been downhill ever since, starting first with replacing 3D button controls with flat buttons, which reduces discoverability and relies on using too much negative space. Over time it turned into displaying less information on the screen, like Win11 eliminating the option to have task bar items show the window text, and instead merely having the application icon, which then hides how many windows an application, and making switching between windows in an app requiring two clicks instead of one.

When I eventually install Win11, I'm going to have to buy WindowBlinds and Start11 just to make it usable.

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2. pornel ◴[27 Mar 23 22:05 UTC] No.35333400[source]▶
Windows 11 is the number of UI redesigns they've started and never finished. Every time you click "Advanced" or "Properties" you get a UI from Windows one version older.