[andrew311]

To me, the real issue is that content in apps is temporal with a lack of visit history, unreproducible feeds, and a lack of deep links. This means I often lose my place when a momentary switch to another app causes a refresh on the first app. Even worse, sometimes switches are accidental from a push notification popping right before I click something else at the top of my screen. Websites have this unreproducible feed problem, too, but it generally isn’t as pronounced.

[remarkEon]

Isn’t this because everything today is designed to be mobile first? That means hiding everything in endless context menus, testing how deep down the rabbit hole your user can go. I long for the days when apps for work had a single page with tons and tons of settings, filling nearly every pixel. I miss that because once you got comfortable you can fly through whatever you’re doing, like a bartender slapping their fingers over the POS machine at Mach 2.

[JohnFen]

> Isn’t this because everything today is designed to be mobile first?

Yes, that's an enormous part of the problem. Mobile and desktop are two entirely different worlds, and you can't have one interface that can deal with both and do so well.

I think it's a disgrace that desktop UI has been made worse because of the existence of smartphones and tablets.