#dontfuckwiththeinterface — Public Fediverse posts

@alanz OK, so it turns out that it is probably Onyx who have fuxnored this one:

https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/6244#issuecomment-1356846312

I've dropped them a couple of lengthy notes on this and some related UI/UX churn which has become annoying.

@jwz has a few excellent commentaries on the value of GUIs, how much improvement is possible through changing them (little if any), and the importance of consistent and common interfaces, rather than domain-specific specialisation. See especially:

"Unity of Interface" (1998)

Short of being cross-platform (which deserves a document of its own) Mozilla's greatest strength is that it manages to provide a unified interface to a number of useful services and protocols.

It is more interesting to support a concept than to support a particular implementation of it.

https://www.jwz.org/doc/unity-of-interface.html

"Why I use Safari instead of Firefox"

The Firefox UI is a moving target. It is under constant "improvement", which means "change" which means every few months I'm forced to upgrade it and shit has moved around and I need to re-learn how to do a task that I was happily doing before. This does not often happen with Safari. Their UI has been remarkably stable for many, many years. ...

Maybe the Firefox team is right, and you can develop a better UI that way. Well, they haven't yet proved this, because Apple's UI is better.

Look, in the case of all other software, I believe strongly in "release early, release often". Hell, I damned near invented it. But I think history has proven that UI is different than software.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/why-i-use-safari-instead-of-firefox/

@joeyh

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