This. I've had so many projects where I wish someone who really cared about UX could just tell me "this sucks, if you want I can help"

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lukan 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I suppose if someone thought this, they would not have dared saying it?

Many do make horrible UI, but would react poorly to criticism, hard to know before ..

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flykespice 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Many programmers think they can cheat their way into designing a good UI, they just think it's just enough for you to learn and use a GUI framework, and place the widgets in a "good enough" way.

Just look at the monstruosity that is the GUI version of wget, it's the epitome of programmers with no UX background trying to make a GUI application.

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catgirlinspace 12 hours ago | parent [-]

there’s a gui for wget??

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eloop 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yep, web browsers.

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flykespice 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yes https://www.jensroesner.com/wgetgui/wgetgui.png

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jeffreygoesto 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Handbrake ;)

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joymonger 11 hours ago | parent [-]

wget is a download CLI tool. Handbrake is a video transcoder. I feel like I'm missing something, or just missed the joke lol.

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yonatan8070 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I Googled screenshots of "wget gui" and "handbrake software", both are GUI programs with a whole lot of dropdowns, checkboxes, etc.

Maybe that's the meaning of the parent comment?

	▲	ValentineC 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Handbrake is aesthetically better, if slightly less powerful compared to MeGUI, but MeGUI is usable if one doesn't mind reading through some video encoding guides. Whatever came before MeGUI was likely much worse.