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Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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1725 points taubek | 1 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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. donmcronald ◴[27 Mar 23 20:18 UTC] No.35331863[source]▶
From that comment:

> I fought passionately against things like the all-white title bars that made it impossible to tell active and inactive windows apart

That change was the exact point in time that I knew sanity was gone and that Windows would get progressively worse over time. You can even end up with one window inside another where they sort of blend together. It's mind boggling and it's still the default.

Whoever is responsible for that mess should be banned from touching UI design for the rest of their life. Lol.