The facebook design changes all tend to feel pointless and annoying, don't they?
I've only used github for a week or so, so I'm not really attached to its interface, and I tend to only interact with it through the github client. On a bit of a tangent, the github client feels awkward and strange. For one thing, it doesn't follow the normal conventions of the OS I'm on. It doesn't even have a menu strip. I'd much rather make a new repo with file -> new repo, have push pull commit etc be in appropriate submenus on the menu strip, and so on, but this thing just throws stuff all over the place willy-nilly, sometimes I don't know if I'm even able to do something and it turns out I have to double-click, things like that. Committing and pushing with gitextensions from inside VS feels nicer.
I really think interface design for desktop apps hit its peak a while ago before everyone was obsessed with stripping things down to the bone. Every update I see menu options and configurability widdled away from applications like Firefox, which is on the track to becoming the one-size-fits-all Chrome. If you want some evidence for that, hang around some channels on irc.mozilla.org.
Another thing is that when I look at screenshots of youtube from a few years ago, it's astounding how much they got right back then that's gone now. The tracking bar has no place hovering over the video obscuring it, the five star system was great but had to be replaced with a binary yes/no, there was a button to start over instead of having to click on the start of the tracker bar, it goes on.
I've used applications from the late 90s or around that period before. They were great. Menu strips were chuck full of stuff, buttons everywhere, just great design to me.
Too many applications are being stripped of any useful feature that's not absolutely essential (or made to have the feature available only through obscure shortcuts / ini files / etc) and it's a development that I greatly disapprove of. I'd rather not have my Microsoft Word replaced with Google Docs.
I've only used github for a week or so, so I'm not really attached to its interface, and I tend to only interact with it through the github client. On a bit of a tangent, the github client feels awkward and strange. For one thing, it doesn't follow the normal conventions of the OS I'm on. It doesn't even have a menu strip. I'd much rather make a new repo with file -> new repo, have push pull commit etc be in appropriate submenus on the menu strip, and so on, but this thing just throws stuff all over the place willy-nilly, sometimes I don't know if I'm even able to do something and it turns out I have to double-click, things like that. Committing and pushing with gitextensions from inside VS feels nicer.
I really think interface design for desktop apps hit its peak a while ago before everyone was obsessed with stripping things down to the bone. Every update I see menu options and configurability widdled away from applications like Firefox, which is on the track to becoming the one-size-fits-all Chrome. If you want some evidence for that, hang around some channels on irc.mozilla.org.
Another thing is that when I look at screenshots of youtube from a few years ago, it's astounding how much they got right back then that's gone now. The tracking bar has no place hovering over the video obscuring it, the five star system was great but had to be replaced with a binary yes/no, there was a button to start over instead of having to click on the start of the tracker bar, it goes on.
I've used applications from the late 90s or around that period before. They were great. Menu strips were chuck full of stuff, buttons everywhere, just great design to me.
Too many applications are being stripped of any useful feature that's not absolutely essential (or made to have the feature available only through obscure shortcuts / ini files / etc) and it's a development that I greatly disapprove of. I'd rather not have my Microsoft Word replaced with Google Docs.