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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever?youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ?si=hclJxo0iB0lH3I4G
481 sats \ 4 comments \ @sox 14h Design
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This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecessarily pit programmers against designers, but it also limits our vision of what we could be doing. Scott Jenson gives examples of how focusing on UX -- instead of UI -- frees us to think bigger
Really enjoyed listening to Scott Jenson1, dude’s a rockstar.

Footnotes

  1. Scott was the first member of Apple Human Interface group in the late ‘80s, has been Director of Product Design for Symbian and managed Mobile UX at Google. Now he’s UX strategist for Mastodon and Home Assistant. ↩
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202 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 5h
Really enjoyed this talk. There's an interesting example about quote formatting research at exactly the 20:00 mark, that I am in my head holding against all the formatting choices made by different stackers on SN (because free-form)
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @deSign_r 7h
Scott is a legend. Shared here in SN one of his latest articles, Boring is Good mentioned in this video.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox OP 5h
Yesterday I read The Paradox of Empathy. Great writing and great thoughts, empathy is at the core of good UX.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @unboiled 12h
I don't think we're stuck with a specific desktop UX at all. It's more that people have been (still are) stuck with a single provider, Microsoft. And to enable them to switch they need something similar enough.
I discovered window managers only a few years ago, then tested two or three of them and never went back.
So there are alternatives. But you need to be willing and have the time / brain capacity to experiment.
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