When I see poorly executed UI like this, I get all passive aggressive and tweet about it. However, I do hope pointing it out and possibly even discussing it, makes it less likely to happenpic.twitter.com/RZA3qfgro9
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I think you nailed it. This is legacy code that no one dares touch. It's very existence proves how spaghetti-code-ish windows 10 is as an experience
But old school they did. Seen people talk about it. They had design early to set frameworks, and purportedly to do every detailed layout. Wouldn’t be surprised if revisions are engineering-only though. Sadly.
I think it's also a good example of how a design system without a corresponding development / build system that separates interface presentation from functionality means that designers can update anything, but that nothing will propagate. The UI build is still very manual.
Complaining from the outside is a tricky business. We don't know what testing they've done, what resources they have, what constraints. We complain (without testing,) saying it's obvious, but if it was possible to change for the better wouldn't they?
This is, by any possible stretch, a sloppy and confusing design why it hasn't been fixed is irrelevant to how it presents
You can make a good argument that showing this as a bad example and explaining how it fails on twitter is a teachable moment to any young designer who thinks to emulate it.
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