Board Thread:New Features/@comment-20644-20170522203248/@comment-168424-20170614163337

Fashionista101 wrote:

...which I don't understand...

Not many people understand outside Fandom staff. Restricting functional changes like JS expansion or strange animation makes sense, but completely restricting changes in look and style doesn't. Fandom is trying to use UX (user experience) reasoning that is flawed. No one really actually scientifically studies UX or UI efficiency anymore so anyone can pull up any BS article full of opinions and say that justifies something.

In the good 'ol days, Apple used to run an extensive UI/UX testing lab for their devs which was the foundation of their ease of use. You can tell they stopped doing it, since their new UIs make people want to barf before they figure out the new unintuitive garbage. Android isn't any better, but they don't have a precedent to worry about.