[silverbax88]

I think this actually represents a massive gap between what UI or UX designers believe and what users actually prefer.

Consider this: Microsoft Windows (prior to Windows 8) was by all accounts a clunky, poorly conceived UI...that allowed users to modify it to look just about any way they wanted.

Now we have applications like Twitter and Facebook constantly re-arranging their users layout, and the most recent changes have been to increase font size, reduce the information on the screen, all of the things that many users (such as myself) do not want.

I find this perplexing...how did we as a UI culture going from having bad design that I could control to having bad design that I can't control?