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by kgwxd 20 days ago
It was never science. But it was pretty obvious when there wasn't anything left to do. Then people kept changing stuff anyway. You'll never even see the trend go back to windows 95 era UI, because if the masses get that feeling back, they'll murder before they let another style enter their lives.
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> It was never science.

There were credentialed academics running studies and contributing to the UI/UX design in KDE in the 2000s at least, though I guess your comment is true in the sense that (most) commercial software usually does design by middle management.