I don’t know if its me or what but I feel like every service I have used has been in a steady decline in user experience. I don’t blame layoffs but they did seem to accelerate it. Things like Google, Spotify, social media, and Netflix just aren’t the same. In the worst cases the software is now buggy and frustrating and in the best cases just not interesting anymore. Please let me know how you feel.
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Same because Microsoft pays low.
This is what I’m thinking will happen. Any thoughts on switching to a smaller company?
Yeah I make my own custom version of Maps (since that is the team I work in) since getting them to agree on my changes is so bureaucratic it won't happen probably, and also some of my changes will never get passed the monetization aspect lol
Maps used to be so great lol I miss those days
Google map used to be my go-to map. Now I switched to apple map. It is much better
How is Netflix user experience declining? They only laid off very few engineers.
Newest version of the smart tv app is buggy in my experience. Maybe it’s the tv idk but tv is 4 months old. Mostly noticed since the last updated that came out in Nov 2022
I said I don’t blame layoffs. Also I think Netflix it’s at the not so bad side where the content is just boring.
Amazon has always had a shit user experience. Our UX engineers all need to fired and replaced.
Amazon video is atrocious
It’s because they use back end engineers as front end.
Twitter works better now, ironically. At least it does for people of the “wrong think.”
Sorry you’re so oppressed. Please tell me more!
Don’t you usually just block people who think differently than you?
> Search for a video in google > Click the matching video > Land on a blog post filled with ads and banners, half only a quarter of the screen has content visible > Dynamic content shifts the page all around in different directions > Manage to find a still picture of the video with no player. > Give up and close the browser
Fuck me this is so true. The web is unusable without ad blocking technology. I'd like to see a search engine that can show the video without me clicking to land on their page. Oh, wait, Bing does that lol Bing 1 Google 0
It’s like trying to make it though a market with assholes shoving products and flyers in your face.
It’s some PM’s job to put out a feature or he isn’t getting his bonus/getting laid off. So now there’s a ton of junk everywhere.
PMs will usually go for speed of delivery over improved ux for this reason. “The pretty-shiny stuff can wait”
All companies are in profit squeezing mode, so don't want to make long term investments like UX. This is what these activist investors get wrong.
Once the money grabbers appear, you’re on a slow path to become IBM.
The profit squeezing tends to impact who gets hired too. You lose the real talent and get code monkeys. Everything stagnates and tech debt takes over.