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Old 08-14-2020, 07:55 AM   #165
Uncle Robin
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Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man View Post
I just get the sense that the new home screen was designed by a marketing department and not a software engineer.
History is replete with examples proving that software engineers often don't consider the "U" in UI to be particularly important, an argument can be made for saying that marketers might actually care more about that. The wide range of reactions to the current Kobo home screen shows that subjectivity still reigns supreme. There are many of us who DO like it, and find its design sensible and practical, meeting our Usage needs in a way that previous iterations did not.
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