Comment on Why is UI design backsliding?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Btw, just so you know, Libre Office has multiple UIs, incliuding a Ribbon-like variant. View > User Interface. But they let you choose.
last time i used libre office was probably more than a decade ago and it was atrocious. did they make things better?
because i still don’t have ms office and would like to have an alternative to edit documents other than uploading a file to google docs and downloading it back.
I think they got better.
But there’s still other (closed source) office suites in a pinch.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Exactly, this is the way. I use it w/o the ribbon, but I like that the ribbon is an option for those who like it.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well a big problem is when a UI has a small learning curve that then gives a huge benefit in usability, letting the user decide based on their feelings might lead to them having a worse off experience in the end, is that something you’d be open to getting people complaining about not finding their options day and night while they stubbornly avoid the ribbon?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Sure. If they prefer to not use the ribbon, UX have two options:
Eliminating the non-ribbon UX is more likely to alienate those users than to actually improve anything.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But the ribbon is the improvement over the non-ribbon UX. There’s just no pleasing some people who don’t want anything to change, even if they’re currently struggling to use all the tools they have available and they’ve stockholmed themselves into learning workarounds. Someone else posted about how before the ribbon, when asked for features to add, people asked for features that they already had access to, but didn’t know about it