[huangc10]

Don't want to light a fire here but I'd like to note that there is inherently something about Japanese culture (or Asian culture for that matter) that inhibits software development growth. Everything in Asia screams of respect for elders. In this case, the elders are the old design patterns and the older programming languages. It's the thought of why do something when it's not broken? As we move forward globally, we are all now realizing that it takes disruption to really create change. Something cultures in Asia are strongly against but are now slowly grasping. I believe this will all change within the next decade or so.

Just to add to this, I am Asian myself so I have experienced this and seen this first hand.

[nullifidian]

As if the "change" we have in UX currently is a good thing. Radical minimalism and the prioritization of clean design and simplicity over functionality doesn't necessarily look like progress to me.

[huangc10]

Do you mind giving me an example of this in 2020? I do remember reading a lot about this in the last couple of years but it seems designers have been quickly to rectify it. Out of all the websites and apps I use commonly, I'm seeing less and less examples of this.

[nomad543]

Try using the Facebook ads and Google Adwords interface for more than one week. Those are the worst interface I've ever seen. Slow and disfunctional, every click you get a spinner, I'm surprised it went to production, using that for more than a week is torture.

As if the spinners were not bad enough, now western web design created the animated grayed out text, which I particularly find an aberration.

Youtube interface is another example. You click on the "videos" tab and you get infinite scrolling without pagination. Killing pagination is a huge usability issue. Comments section with the "Load more" approach, another annoying feature, just load me all the comments in one go please.

[huangc10]

I get what you mean, but you're basically complaining about UX. The guy was talking about radical minimalism. Not sure killing pagination is under the radical minimalism category...

[earthboundkid]

USA just elected an ancient President and an ancient Speaker of the House, but we don’t respect them, so it’s not a Confucian country.

[ekianjo]

> I believe this will all change within the next decade or so.

I heard that many decades ago.

[wozer]

Not unique to Asia, though. The software situation in Germany feels similar.

[bluepizza]

Some of the biggest technology companies in the planet are Chinese or South Korean.

[knolax]

Is that why the US government had to forcibly seize the US operations of an Asian social media platform popular with American teenagers? Those American teenagers were just so enamored with TikTok and all its oriental traditions./s