<story><title>Simple Does Not Mean Ugly</title><url>https://uglyduck.ca/simple-does-not-mean-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>To be honest, I have never encountered a website so far that even remotely had the same level of usability of a really good desktop application around the year 2000 or so.&lt;p&gt;How many websites have user-definable menu shortcuts, unlimited undo, instant user-feedback for every operation, tooltips that can be switched on or off, full internal drag &amp;amp; drop and OS-level drag and drop of files, standard user interface elements that work how the user expects them to work, a context-sensitive online help system, reconfigurable toolbars with user-definable icon sets, multiple open documents at once, movable and reconfigurable tool windows, manye internationalizations, and so on?&lt;p&gt;The web is still the future, I know, but web application UX designers are still re-inventing the wheel and without some enforced UI guidelines like Apple had in the 90s websites will never fully catch up with desktop apps in terms of usability.&lt;p&gt;To be fair, a comparison with modern desktop apps is much more favorable, because most of them have regressed in terms of usability.</text></comment>
<story><title>Simple Does Not Mean Ugly</title><url>https://uglyduck.ca/simple-does-not-mean-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>halgir</author><text>Very old and very relevant:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And if you search for &amp;quot;motherfucking website&amp;quot;, you&amp;#x27;ll find a million similar, satirical versions of a website inspired by that first one.</text></comment>