Timeline for Should "Why does x company do...."or "Is there a reason why x does y" questions be removed?
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 15:40 | comment | added | Forthright | I came here to beg for their closure but then saw this upon searching. I strongly feel these questions should almost always be removed as they tend to: 1) Dilute the site with questions that could only be truly answered by the designers themselves. 2) It creates a rationale where there may have been none, giving credibility to bad UX by brandname association. 3) Encourages a community which puts more weight on vagaries of opinion rather than the paucity of sourced or researched facts these questions elicit. | |
| Mar 15, 2013 at 8:56 | comment | added | Henrik Ekblom | Yes, I agree that we shouldn't blindly follow other companies design choices. Although - in the cases where their design is based on general interaction design principles and backed up by research and data, those design principles, research and data becomes the interesting part of the answer - not the very design implementation itself. | |
| Mar 14, 2013 at 16:17 | comment | added | JonW Mod | @HenrikEkblom that Google question is still open though, so it's not one of the disputed closed questions. I would also suggest that you shouldn't be making decision based on what Google (or any other company) do, but instead you should determine what provides the best UX in general. Don't start out looking at Google and figuring out how to incorporate that, start out with the problem itself defined and then look to how to solve that problem. Google approach might be one of the potential solutions, but so might many others. | |
| Mar 14, 2013 at 15:55 | comment | added | Henrik Ekblom | I disagree with your thoughts about these posts, that "they're very rarely of use to anyone". I think they can provide a guidance into how to design things (in some cases - but of course not all). I find it, for example, interesting to know why Google uses different colors on their buttons - which I can use when I design software - ux.stackexchange.com/questions/33309/…. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 0:23 | vote | accept | David | ||
| Mar 4, 2013 at 0:12 | history | answered | JonWMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |