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Why is UI design backsliding?

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Why did UI’s turn from practical to form over function?

E.g. Office 2003 vs Microsoft 365

It’s easy to remember where everything is with a toolbar and menu bar, which allows access to any option in one click and hold move.

Seriously? Big ribbon and massive padding wasting space, as well as the ribbon being clunky to use.

Why did this happen?

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Office no longer exists as it used to. The applications are being turned into offline websites. See Modern Outlook, Modern Teams ect. They are cost cutting all the different app platforms down to one. An offline website for each app.

peak enshitification

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