What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i’ve been hopeful. What do you think?

  • @kurosawaa@programming.dev
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    521 year ago

    I don’t think UX will be that big of a problem, in the past the unofficial reddit apps were all better than the official one. Major companies design by committee and the UX is meant too maximize profit and engagement statistics for advertising, rather than be “good”. A lot of open source UIs are better than their paid counterparts. I think PopOS is far nicer than windows 11.

    • @rambaroo@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      Nah, most open source UIs are really pretty bad. Most devs are horrendous designers.

      Your comment about profitability is true when it comes to social media companies specifically but definitely not true for the industry as a whole. UX is a huge selling point for enterprise software and the goal there isn’t to drive clicks or views, because that’s not how those companies make money.

      UX won’t be a problem as long as the maintainers are open to feedback and not stubborn about their current approach. And even if they are, an alternate front end could be introduced separate from the default one.