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submitted 2 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

Why did UI's turn from practical to form over function?

E.g. Office 2003 vs Microsoft 365

Office 2003

It's easy to remember where everything is with a toolbar and menu bar, which allows access to any option in one click and hold move.

Microsoft 365

Seriously? Big ribbon and massive padding wasting space, as well as the ribbon being clunky to use.

Why did this happen?

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[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

*12 headlines, on a window that doesn't even take up my whole screen, at 125% scaling, with a bookmark bar taking up space, and on a site rich with thumbnails.

And fine. I'll set it to standard 100% scaling, at a size where I can still comfortably work:

19 headlines, and some nice related thumbnails, a site header with plenty of links, 2 small file manager windows open, and a terminal window open.

None of this is even taking into consideration things in modern UX design like virtual desktops you can instantly switch between - something non-existent long ago.

Please do continue to tell me about how "unusable" laptops are.

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