Comment by rcxdude

6 days ago

I would personally like a little more consistency and a little less creativity in my UIs, TBH. Most UIs should be boring and effectively invisible, because if I'm paying attention to the UI, it's a distraction from the task or content that I actually care about. The web and electron have hastened a trend which I intensely dislike of every single application looking and acting completely differently for what is fundamentally the same thing. It's not that this variation doesn't matter: it's actively bad. (Not that UI design doesn't matter. Good UI design is important. But part of what makes UI design good is consistency and that's what web designers seem to actively dislike)

(more precisely, I long for the days of a standard and customizable UI toolkit. I should be the one who can adjust what the UI looks like, not hundreds of different designers with different concepts of how to 'stand out')