> The common end user wants flashy, sleek, stylish (and apparently CandyCrush).
Do they, though? I get the impression that nobody is actually testing with users. It seems more like UI developers want "flashy, sleek, stylish" and that's what's getting jammed down all our throats.
As a UI designer and developer, I would push the blame further along the stack and say that execs and shareholders want “flashy, sleek, stylish”, in the same way everything has to have AI jammed in now, lest the number start going down or not up quite as fast as hoped.
Do they, though? I get the impression that nobody is actually testing with users. It seems more like UI developers want "flashy, sleek, stylish" and that's what's getting jammed down all our throats.