five things tagged “user interfaces”
Note 0023-microsoft-teams
For nearly six years and counting, I’ve had the misfortune of using Microsoft Teams, an infernal piece of software that I am not entirely unconvinced isn’t sadistic psychological research into discovering novel UI/UX anti-patterns.
As I tried my best to use it today for a meeting, I realized that I’d rather tell people I sold crack cocaine or ran a puppy mill than divulge that I’m an engineer at Microsoft who works on Teams.
A Set of Windows Themes for Linux
I was tickled to try out the Windows 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows 7 ones. Simpler, purer times.
Grumpy.Website is a list of UI/UX Abhorrences
Quite a few of them are designed to confuse and/or furstrate the user into increasing Shareholder Value™ but there are many that are firmly in “confusion of ideas” territory.