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Why is UI design backsliding? (lemmy.zip)

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

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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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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 months ago

Microsoft was pushing all their designs to this new ribbon UI design, across their apps. I dunno why they thought that was a good idea. But I left Windows for years already. LibreOffice is just the old school layout, and if you really really want you could optionally also ribbons in LibreOffice.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Related: https://youtu.be/HdozqSVF-VM

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can use OpenOffice which hasn't adopted any new UI since 1998.

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[–] Yuki@kutsuya.dev -1 points 2 months ago

I miss 07 jfc...

[–] christophski@feddit.uk -2 points 2 months ago

Everyone wanted to compete with Apple

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