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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: 0.208s | 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.
There are more https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780566
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acedTrex ◴[27 Mar 23 14:49 UTC] No.35327397[source]▶
The idea of Windows UI/UX designers having macbooks is so absurd to me it's hilarious
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lostgame ◴[27 Mar 23 22:07 UTC] No.35333426[source]▶
That’s...uh, surprising as hell. The idea of a designer that could actually tolerate having to use Windows full-time for design work, even at Microsoft; would be much more surprising, from my experience.
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1. rrrrrrrrrrrryan ◴[27 Mar 23 22:42 UTC] No.35333822[source]▶
The lead designers at Ford might drive Porches on the weekends, but I'll bet they still drive Fords into the office.

The more painful it is to eat your own dogfood, the more it's necessary to do so. But it has to be mandated from the top down.

If the only people with the power to actually change the product aren't even using it, the god-awful UI/UX decisions in the latest version of Windows begin to make sense.