UIs are ultimately necessary evils and nothing else. I need an Interface to communicate with the machine before me. That is the only point, the only reason for being for a UI. If there ever comes a point where I can talk to my pc or plug it into my brain, UI web design as a job will disappear over night. Meaning, first and foremost, UIs need to be functional. And after fourty years of computer UI design, one would imagine that all the designing has been done, all the bad ideas have been weeded out, and all the tricks are known. For some reason, this is not the case. e.g., the new youtube UI design they rolled out over the course of the last half year. It doesn't improve ANYTHING. it takes an existing, working, interface, shuffles the existing elements around and then calls that a job well done. The current youtube design works. It will continue working. It will still be working in a thousand years just the way it is now. Or in other words, if it works, don't try to fix it. So yeah, in a way, I would argue that UI design IS dying, by the simple virtue that eventually we will know all the things that work. The better the designers of the present are, the less the designers of the future will have to do outside of functionless aesthetics and pointless redesigns.
RUclipss UX is pretty bad, so not the best example - but while theres still interfaces, there'll still be new features and needs as well as just new digital apps all together. Just because it "works" doesn't mean its good, and there's both functional and financial reason to continue pursuing its advancement
@@Balloonbot Whether or not a program works is the primary judgement for whether or not it is a good program. Except even that is not true, because if your program does NOT work, then it isn't even eligible to be judged. It is just broken. So that is your counter argument for that point. "If it detracts from the work that needs doing, it is most definitely bad". That is why the youtube redesign was so badly received. No new functionalities and the existing ones were made less accessible. And while I cannot talk about the old RUclips UI from the content creator side, from my side its UI is pretty good. VIdeo in the center, recommendations to the side, comments below, additional elements take up very little space. It is pure functionality and gives me exactly what I need and want. There is quite frankly no reason to change any of that and no reason to add additional "features".
@@Alexander_Kale You dont need to add features for UX to be refined. That's besides the point, you said: "I would argue that UI design IS dying, by the simple virtue that eventually we will know all the things that work." - which doesn't make sense, there'll still be new products that serve different purposes as well new emerging platforms like VR/AR - which have barely been touched yet in terms of UX/UI. There are some great UX creators who have redesigned apps that are very popular and technically "work" but not as well as they could. Its a better example to illustrate the ongoing need for designers even on large scale established apps. I would be more specific on which creators, but sometimes comments are blocked for advertising if I do so.
@@Balloonbot It makes sense in terms of specific products. YOutube as it is does not require a redesign. It works the way it is. As long as you do not change what youtube does, there is a limited amount of optimizations you can do. And your example of people redesigning popular apps is exactly that, a support for my claim. Eventually those app will have finished the process of UI optimization, and those people will be out of a job, they will have to move on to other projects. Overall, you made my point for me. Thnx.
UIs are ultimately necessary evils and nothing else. I need an Interface to communicate with the machine before me. That is the only point, the only reason for being for a UI. If there ever comes a point where I can talk to my pc or plug it into my brain, UI web design as a job will disappear over night.
Meaning, first and foremost, UIs need to be functional. And after fourty years of computer UI design, one would imagine that all the designing has been done, all the bad ideas have been weeded out, and all the tricks are known.
For some reason, this is not the case. e.g., the new youtube UI design they rolled out over the course of the last half year. It doesn't improve ANYTHING. it takes an existing, working, interface, shuffles the existing elements around and then calls that a job well done.
The current youtube design works. It will continue working. It will still be working in a thousand years just the way it is now. Or in other words, if it works, don't try to fix it.
So yeah, in a way, I would argue that UI design IS dying, by the simple virtue that eventually we will know all the things that work. The better the designers of the present are, the less the designers of the future will have to do outside of functionless aesthetics and pointless redesigns.
RUclipss UX is pretty bad, so not the best example - but while theres still interfaces, there'll still be new features and needs as well as just new digital apps all together. Just because it "works" doesn't mean its good, and there's both functional and financial reason to continue pursuing its advancement
@@Balloonbot Whether or not a program works is the primary judgement for whether or not it is a good program. Except even that is not true, because if your program does NOT work, then it isn't even eligible to be judged. It is just broken. So that is your counter argument for that point. "If it detracts from the work that needs doing, it is most definitely bad". That is why the youtube redesign was so badly received. No new functionalities and the existing ones were made less accessible.
And while I cannot talk about the old RUclips UI from the content creator side, from my side its UI is pretty good. VIdeo in the center, recommendations to the side, comments below, additional elements take up very little space. It is pure functionality and gives me exactly what I need and want.
There is quite frankly no reason to change any of that and no reason to add additional "features".
@@Alexander_Kale You dont need to add features for UX to be refined. That's besides the point, you said: "I would argue that UI design IS dying, by the simple virtue that eventually we will know all the things that work." - which doesn't make sense, there'll still be new products that serve different purposes as well new emerging platforms like VR/AR - which have barely been touched yet in terms of UX/UI.
There are some great UX creators who have redesigned apps that are very popular and technically "work" but not as well as they could. Its a better example to illustrate the ongoing need for designers even on large scale established apps. I would be more specific on which creators, but sometimes comments are blocked for advertising if I do so.
@@Balloonbot It makes sense in terms of specific products. YOutube as it is does not require a redesign. It works the way it is. As long as you do not change what youtube does, there is a limited amount of optimizations you can do. And your example of people redesigning popular apps is exactly that, a support for my claim. Eventually those app will have finished the process of UI optimization, and those people will be out of a job, they will have to move on to other projects.
Overall, you made my point for me. Thnx.
The last part cracks me up though
😅 glad to hear you found it funny. Had a blast filming this video 🤣🤣🤣
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