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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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330 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source
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jrm4 ◴[12 Dec 25 00:15 UTC] No.46239281[source]▶
I'll die on the proverbial hill that the absolute worst instance of this has always been GIMP, which could have perhaps eaten Adobe's lunch MANY years ago.

It was and perhaps still is, a solid competitor to Photoshop, but any unfamiliar grownup is, quite reasonably, going to never ever ever trust anything to do serious work with a name like that.

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Johanx64 ◴[12 Dec 25 02:09 UTC] No.46240094[source]▶
GIMP has god horrid UX, there's no way it could have eaten Adobes anything. There's lineage of FOSS apps that stick by the "we're not X, we're different from X." mantra.

The discomfort, frustration and unintuitiveness you're feeling from using our app? It's just you!

No, that's not bad design and bad UX! its simply because we are different! We aren't X (Photoshop), we just do things differently here!".

GIMP is quintessential example of this.

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1. necovek ◴[12 Dec 25 02:53 UTC] No.46240346[source]▶
Do you have examples of bad UX in recent Gimp versions that's not simply "no time to improve it" (still mostly volunteer project)?

I believe Gimp could never enter the professional circles because it's internals are too tied to one, single colour model (RGB).

Professionals in many fields use tools with very bad UI/UX.