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qirex
Feb 15, 2001

whoever replaced “don’t show this” with “see less often” at twitter has a special room waiting in the bad place when they die

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qirex
Feb 15, 2001

the base issue is whoever’s doing the ux can be overruled by anyone in marketing or product if making number go up is at stake

every annoying nag feature has like two dozen people inside the company who tried to stop it from happening but failed because they don’t have a mba and therefore aren’t worth the real decision makers’ time to listen to

qirex fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Apr 30, 2022

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

for several versions outlook had a “here’s what’s new in outlook” section in the sidebar that couldn’t be turned off and I don’t think ever got any new content until they killed it

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

alexandriao posted:

Companies exist to make money -- anything that doesn't make money number go up gets loving trashed and rightfully so.
there's a lot of evidence that lovely nag features reduce revenue and overall customer satisfaction

there's a difference between making a number go up [that might not even be useful, just to make a team lead's bonus goals] and making the number grow long term

the facebook "pivot to video" pretty much destroyed not only the last vestiges of american journalism but also lost facebook billions of dollars but a number did go up for a short time and somebody probably got a huge stack of rsus which was the point of the whole thing. now their obsession with min/maxing a few key numbers is eating into their bottom line in a huge way

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

mediaphage posted:

in terms of effectiveness, i also hate carousels (as in webpage displays)
the carousel pattern is an imperfect solution to an impossible request, namely "these 5 things are all #1 priority!"

imo good decision making would eliminate 95% of carousels

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