I swear there used to be a time when my reaction to new software features wasn't a resigned sigh followed by figuring out how to switch it off.

@adrianh I have a clear memory of my father going to his office one day to order his medical supplies for the next month.

"They've redesigned the web site!" ... he called to us.

"How does it look?" asked my mother.

"Really good" he replied.

She followed up ... "Can you find what you need?"

There was a long pause.

...

"No".

@ColinTheMathmo @adrianh Websites do only look good. Technical Data about technical products? Good luck finding those. Or, finding the products at all.
@ColinTheMathmo @adrianh all websites should be like digikey or McMaster Carr. Everything is parametrically searchable and the company logo is inexplicably a 64x100 jpeg
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.(xyz @adrianh actually the McMaster website looks *really good* IMO. Props to their web team)
@cinebox @adrianh wow that really is good UX, I'm saving it for future reference.

@ColinTheMathmo @adrianh the old saying of "function over form" still applies nowadays

I'd rather have something that looks like it came straight from the early 2000s but works flawlessly

@ColinTheMathmo @adrianh Looks good but isn't intuitive.
@ColinTheMathmo @adrianh This describes 90% of all websites these days.