Over the past months it would appear that developers are attempting to keep their sites or even computer interfaces "exciting and fresh" by making changes to the user interface for one reason or another.
Recent examples include NewTwitter, The Xbox 360 Dashboard, and Facebook to name a few.
Why? Who knows!? The majority of the time the excuse is for security reasons but why make such drastic chances to the UI (user interface.)
Could it be simplicity? Let's think about the huge strides that came when the world was introduced to Microsoft Windows. Windows offered simplicity that gave the PC user a environment similar to the Macintosh. Some thought it was easy to use, some thought it was complicated. In the following years Windows was fine tuned with newer versions, but the overall structuring remained the same. If you were familiar with a earlier version you could still navigate without the need to learn a entire new system. When new features were offered you still had the ability to do things the old way, for the most part.
The point being, before they started smoking crack and made Vista, you had the freedom to "opt out" of new features, for the features that you were more comfortable with.
Now look at Facebook. I've been on Facebook since early 2009 and everytime I get used to some feature, they either take it away, or change it beyond recognition. If you don't like it, tough! Remember all the "Bring back the old Facebook" pages? I sure do. We were told that the changes made things "simple". Do you agree?
One way they decided to make things simple was by removing the "clear chat" button in FB chat. Why!? I guess having your chat auto delete after 24 hours was just what we all were all begging for.
Recently the new feature called "Friendships" has raised a ton of questions on privacy. I wanna know what my readers think of this new feature.
While these may be nice features to some why not give us the option to "opt out" of using said features if we need more time to adjust. Granted change is sometimes necessary, but at what cost?
Should "simplicity" always win against "functionality"? Comment below...
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Yes I do believe that simplicity should WIN. These new features that they are making on Facebook are what I call a "Facebook Stalkers" dream come true. Why???? For one..... Instead of going from page to page to read a whole conversation, Just click "See Friendship" and there you go every comment, Like, Picture your tagged in with the other person,and the lists goes on. So to sum this up I just want Simplicity back.
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