design trends 2015
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I hope we see less app updates for the sake of the company doing something new. I'm baffled at how radically some apps are redesigned at seemingly random times throughout the year. Facebook is one of the worst offenders. So many companies establish UI patterns that become familiar to users and follow conventional expectations, only to completely change them with an update. It's design for design's sake and I am willing to bet that so much of it is done with little to no usability testing or research.
Which brings me to my next point. We were talking at my office about this recently and feel like UX and design research is going to grow in importance in the coming years, both to produce meaningful work and to justify the expense that goes into UX work. I think a lot of designers and agencies have gotten by by simply being creative and taking chances. I think that tons of app makers do exactly that. I think we will see more honest research going into how the average user really goes about using something, and it will be used in even better ways to impact the design.
Kind of a rant here... but I'm sure a lot of designers and agencies and app makers convince themselves that the thing they created is the BEST. The BEST execution on the request they were asked to fulfill. So when I see new versions of sites and apps appear that totally break from what they established, it really boggles me. If they did it right the first time, is there a need to redesign it for a new version? To rearrange a UI just so there's something for someone to do?
I think about this all the damn time. 95% of most well designed sites and apps could stay that way infinitely and work perfectly, with only minimal cosmetic updates. But they'll always be updated, changed, redesigned, and often this breaks what users have become familiar with.
- Google are the worst for random and constant UI/UX updates. Constantly switching things around.set