a tech company saying “we know change can be scary” in the midst of user backlash has the same energy as “the Titanic is virtually unsinkable”
so I guess they just don’t teach buisness majors about the New Coke fiasco
It’s genuinely kinda weird to me- I recently graduated in UX and a lot of the major issues I’ve got with the new layout is not that it looks different. The information architecture of the app genuinely means that navigating the app takes more work (more taps/button presses in this case) than the previous layout.
Nothing in an app or site should take more than 3 taps to get anywhere. It kinda just tells me they didn’t have any concurrent users testing it (WHICH THEY SHOULD BE- AS THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE) prior to pushing the changes. Yes it might be Prettier and seem better organized than before, but switching between a server and a dm was 1 swipe 1 tap before, now its:
Swipe to bring up the menu, tap the dms menu, tap to pull up the unread dm, and your previous dm that you were looking at no longer pulls automatically too.
And that’s not mentioning you can’t search for a message server-wide on mobile before. You have to check each channel painstakingly instead of having a full peek at the entire server.
On voice it is much harder to pull up the conversation to mute my mic if needed, I just needed to swipe up before, now pulling the nav bar is a double tap and a swipe up (unsure which because it’s barely responsive for me). Additionally, maybe my friend just couldn’t find it, but they may have removed mobile push to talk as well.
And the fact that we can’t swipe right to pull up the other side menu and must instead click the header when in a chat channel? It isn’t intuitive. The reply function is given priority over an entire side menu. That doesn’t make sense to me.
Anyways the point is. They committed one of the major sins of UX by rearranging their information architecture. The user has to work more to navigate the app period. It’s not an issue with adjusting to the new layout. It is actually SIGNIFICANTLY more work to navigate the app.
Sorry to have a huge rant over this I’m just very passionate. If anybody has any questions you can ask me though. 👍
“you don’t seem autistic just looking at you” thanks I’ve spent my whole life manually filtering my impulses and minutely controlling my muscles to present that illusion
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“You don’t seem autistic” thanks you have no idea what autism really looks like
a scooby doo series set in community college where the gang is in a criminology class and end up in a huge debate on the first day of class that leads to them starting a podcast talking about local urban legends, only to realize things aren’t quite adding up and they go to investigate for ~journalistic authenticity~ and end up solving a real-life crime disguised as supernatural occurrences. this happens every week and they’re frequently featured on the school newspaper. they only have twenty listeners
ONEOF MY BOSSES DECIDED TO COME OUT AS SHE/THEY AT TONIGHTS OFFICE PARTY BUT I SH
FUCKING CHRIST
I decided tonight was the night I was gonna come out as he/him so I dressed in my “day off clothes” but APPARENTLY SHE WANTRD TO COME OUT TONIGHT TOO becausse I saw a pretty lady I didn’t recognize and went to introduce myself AND IT WAS ****HER**** AND IM FUCKING. STANDIBG IN A CORNER. FUCK
IT LOOKS LIKE EE FUCKING SWITCHED ON PURPOSE
.. I feel like this needs a follow up. How’s the rest of the night go tho??????
She revealed that we had once run into each other in “day off style” and she had recognized me but I hadn’t recognized her so I just screamed into my hands while she laughed at me
it is really weird what like. 4 years perspective on something you believed fully to your core will do
“yeah disappointment and heartbreak when plans or friends or romance doesnt work out hurt me too badly so now i just dont do that stuff or really hope for anything or get invested in anyone/anything anymore that way i can be surprised by nice happy things and bad stuff is just expected”
and my roommate at the time looked horrified and said “thats bad Bee??? thats so sad” and i didnt know what to say because id thought what i said was normal/a positive coping mechanism
btw this is, in my instance, the result of autistic burnout and childhood neglect. if you get so used to your needs and expectations not being met you learn to not have them because it is your only means of survival.
some people get angry and express their pain and are called ‘difficult’, some people shave themselves away until theres barely anything left and disappear to become ‘easier’. learning that disappearing to be easier on those around me was not kindness but, meaningless self destruction was a core part of learning how not to die.
