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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
But jeez, did they do any kind of usability studies before they rolled it out?!
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Usability studies are pretty much a thing of the past (probably the expense), it seems. Just look at Linux (Ubuntu's Unity and GNOME's Shell) and Windows 8 on the desktop/laptop or, to be more MobileRead-ish about it, Android Jellybean's first iteration or Kobo's "Tapestries" (portrait mode-only for the launcher, at 7" and lower for JB, plus no snap to grid when scrolling the screens via the quick swipe we're all used to for Kobo).
Seems more and more we get a dev's (or, more likely, a stubborn higher up with power) pet project that they build (or order built) based on their own sense of what design should be - which generally clashes with what the real users need and want.