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View submission: Out with 2016, in with 2017
/u/spez, please do move forward with your plans for a UI overhaul and make use of modern design trends. Users will complain regardless of the effectiveness of changes, and just as I'm sure your testing will prove better engagement, these are people who will complain about any and every change to any interface they're used to.
Don't let that hinder you. Ignore "change it back," and "I liked it better" comments while continuing to listen to the community for improvements upon whatever you do present.
Continue to use your internal testing methods to evaluate user engagement for an unbiased measure of user acceptance and engagement, but remain steadfast in your effort to modernize.
I think you already know most of what I'm telling you, but I wanted to make sure that you're aware that those of us who understand and care about user experience so support your efforts despite the naysaying of much of the community.
Comment by [deleted] at 26/01/2017 at 04:09 UTC*
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Comment by alphanovember at 02/03/2017 at 04:04 UTC
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No. This is a terrible idea and will ruin reddit, just like Digg's final redesign did in 2010.
Modern design trends are pure garbage and harm usability. Excessive empty space, oversized fonts, boring overly simplistic visuals, unlabeled buttons and menus hidden behind vague icons, lack of useful and obvious functionality, performance-killing bloat, and so on. It looks bad and even worse, actually removes core features and ignores every basic UI standard. This crap belongs on mobile, not on desktop. reddit's current design is good precisely because it hasn't caved into these terrible looks-over-function fads, which don't even look good to begin with. Hopefully the redesign won't happen, or if it does, it won't look like the current modmail/u/spez[1]beta.