UX clichés
I am not a designer nor a software engineer, nor a business person. I am just a (heavy) user of all sorts of software for a very long time. I am a competent coder, and I code for research and pleasure. I don&#x27;t have a dog in this, let&#x27;s say, professional race.<p>Every time I spot &quot;UX&quot; in relation to something I use, I cringe. Not because I have anything against the idea of design, or good interfaces, or designing good interfaces. That is all great. The problem is that 99% of the time that the term &quot;UX&quot; shows up in connection with something I use, two things are going to happen:<p>1) I will have to relearn how to do something that I already was used to doing without even thinking;<p>2) Some feature or option is going to be removed.<p>The human brain is incredibly plastic and adaptable. Unless the interface is truly absurd, most people can get used to it and never give it a second thought again.<p>My number one (by far) request as a user:<p>DON&#x27;T FUCKING CHANGE THE INTERFACE<p>Unless there is a very good reason, and I bet there isn&#x27;t.<p>I bought my first MacBook in 2007. Thankfully, Apple is one of the best behaved companies when it comes to not changing things for the sake of it, and part of the reason why I stick with them. I don&#x27;t mention this out of some sort of fanboy-ism (I have no loyalty to corporations, I just buy shit I like). I mention it to make a more important point:<p>The UX of 2007 was absolutely fine, and if they would have made zero changes since then I would be perfectly happy. UX for laptops&#x2F;desktops was solved in the early 2000. Everything else since then is just irrelevant bullshit.