A World-wide Collection of Most Requested Changes in the User Experience of Windows 9
Considering that 60 percent of Windows 8 users launch a Metro app less than once per day on average it beggars the mind that who, in their right mind would want to constantly stare at those hideous tiles for more than 30 seconds? I don’t and I won’t. The User Experience Design of Windows 8 is not well-designed. It is a diabolical mess of catastrophic proportions. It is an even bigger nightmare because it is a phenomenal User Interface disaster in every sense of the word – it is bad UX, it is bad UI it is bad thought process and is one of the worst software products I have had the misfortune of using or seeing. You cannot question my assessment. It is is not my runaway imagination, Windows 8 is a monstrous disaster. End of story.
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Remove the “Ribbon” From The User interface
It has been called a visual spewing of something unfathomable – I simply called UX clutter. That ribbon has so may tiny elements it looks like someone who tried to do everything at once and could not pried away from the obsession with tiny-ness. It either needs top be fixed or completely removed.
Build A User Experience That Does Not Force Me To Use Fingers
Most people still can’t understand why Microsoft is pushing a touch-based operating user interface onto systems that people are going to be driving with a keyboard and mouse.
It feels clumsy and awkward and and that user experience design offers no benefit to the traditional PC user.
Have Consistency in the User Experience Design
Whoever designed this user interface? In one second most people see the classic familiar Windows screen similar to Windows 7 then suddenly they are staring at freaking blocks! Microsoft should decide on one, and if possible please sell two different version of Windows 8.
Do Not Hide Important Links and Buttons, that is Bad UX Design
What kind of User Experience hides a power button so well that you gotta ask Google it order to find it? There are too many hidden and invisible user interface elements in Windows 8. Take your mouse to the bottom-left of the screen and you get poor replacement to the Start Menu. Take the cursor to the top-left and you get tiles showing apps that are open. Take the cursor to the right of the screen and a charms ribbon pops out. Why can’t Microsoft devise a way for the important stuff to always be present?
Give Me Access To The Control Panel and Shut Down Button
Yes, you have to a ninja of figuring mysteries out to know instinctively how to turn off Windows 8. I have been using computers since I was 11 and even I had to Google how to turn it off. Thanks Microsoft. Closing down Windows through the Charms bar is just convoluted and strange, but there’s a new option now in Windows 8.1.
Allow Users To Disable Tiles Completely
Most people have never been a fan of these myriad kaleidoscope of that many ugly colors all bundled up into one product. Just viewing them causes a “knee-jerk” reaction all the time. Kill the damn tiles and return to windows.
Link the Start Button to a Start Menu, Remove UX Trickery
In Windows 8, if we click in the lower-left corner of the Desktop where the start button resides, we experience a “knee-jerk” reaction as we are rudely moved to the Metro Start screen. You are including trickery in your User Experience by fooling us into thinking that you have built a real start menu menu like the one we loved in Windows 7. Please don’t do that.
Change The Default Apps for most Apps
A UX that jumps you from a classic screen when you click on images and open it up in the Metro-sphere and takes 1 minute to do defiantly gets a thumbs-down. The same is true for other file types, even if there is a built in desktop app. If you could kindly open an app within the same sphere where it was opened, we would be so grateful.
Allow An Interface Design That Can Resize Internet Explorer
We all hoped for a better IE but, alas! Starting it revealed the default home page, centered on our huge computer displays, with ridiculous white spaces on both side, a visual horror of sorts. So, now it turns out that you cannot resize the window and opening a new tab open it into a new window. Oh my lost socks and missing spectacles, we grit our teeth and very slowly start to grind them.
Bring Back the Windows Experience Index
It was the most in-depth and comprehensive benchmarking tool ever invented by Microsoft and was loved by all and sundry. Even the Apple fellows had a deep-seated envy for it. It was was one of the best products to come out of Microsoft and just like puff of smoke – it disappeared. Please bring it. That’s an order.
In Conclusion
If we are am wrong then why would HP be now promoting Windows 7 over Windows 8? What does that tell all you awesome chaps at Redmond?? If you gifted us with a Windows 8.1 laptops, just because of the User Experience alone, we would try my level best to pawn it and buy a Macbook or simply remove that confounded OS and put Windows 7. But, that is just me, and I tell it like is and not just how you want to hear it.
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