[znpy]

> People tend to dismiss UX 'experts' because frequently they end up being the ones who destroy perfectly good interfaces based on trends or similar.

yep. i guess that reddit hired one of those.

old.reddit.com is awesome and stood the test of time, the new reddit is awful and slow (and i hate it).

[pbhjpbhj]

There's two things here.

One, not all Reddit users prefer old.reddit (I do).

Two, Reddit aren't designing for users, they're designing for advertiser's to push adverts at users.

Wrt the second point, this means designers aren't designing to the brief you would give them. Like when engineers design obsolescence into a product (it's purposefully inferior for the end user).

Any idiot can see it's bad user experience to keep forcing a user to a design they don't like, but it's not for UX reasons that they do it. The trick is keeping UX good enough.

[TeMPOraL]

> Wrt the second point, this means designers aren't designing to the brief you would give them.

To extend that: note that the very companies that spend most money on UI, that hire the experts and pay them well, that set the trends for entire field of UX - are all companies whose primary business is user abuse - advertising, high engagement, etc. That's what they pay the UI/UX experts to optimize for, and that's what ends up leaking into the wider field - leading astray people who are trying to build things beneficial to their users/customers.