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Discussion (3 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

Terr_•about 3 hours ago
It seems UI has stopped being a science and started being middle-management: Everybody must justify their position and promotion by completing some very visible change in the product, even when the only practical changes are bad ones.
smelendez•about 1 hour ago
Yeah, it’s a problem with the employment and organizational structure, in a way.

Software doesn’t need continual redesign and redevelopment at constant scale, nor is there unlimited need for new software tools in any one company’s wheelhouse, but the expectation is that software companies hire people and keep them onboard as long as they’re performing well, not that they’ll scale up for a periodic launch and then scale down again. And a company that did that — outside of the video game industry — would be shunned by developers (at least in a good labor market).

rglover•about 1 hour ago
When you see it all lined up, it's pretty clear. It does make sense though. Computers were first viewed as utilities, but now they're more entertainment machines. Makes sense that the UI would degrade away from utility towards pure style.