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[–]zephyranthes 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

  • The man-hours for good design are not in the budget. You get what's easy to implement with the framework they're using.

  • They don't use the software, they aren't in the target audience for the software and will never be, possibly because the majority of people who use the software have room temperature IQ.

  • They're doing it on purpose: to keep you "engaged" for longer, to trick you into making bad decisions, to prevent you from using your data effectively, to prevent others (competitors, "bad" actors) from using your data effectively.

[–]HegeMoney 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I suspect the answer can be found in comparison of that the question to:

Q: "Why aren't dentists good plastic surgeons?"

A: Because they have been trained/educated to focus on a very different set of problems, and desired outcome.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Frankly they even had to start sending plastic surgeons to art classes because most had no idea what a good looking face was actually made up of.

[–]HegeMoney 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder who's going into the plastic surgery for trans classes.

Probably the folks who barely graduated.

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you're talking about UI design, not everyone agrees what looks good. There is a trend for modern websites to use big round buttons that take way more space than they need to.