If things are so complex now why does Google Maps constantly shift buttons and menus around without offering new functionality? To me it seems designers are just spinning their wheels. The whole data driven UX stuff reminds me a little of Agile with its story points and velocity charts. Looks “scientific” but if you take a closer look it’s just BS.
Also Google Maps interface for EDITING routes, its main purpose, it's utterly broken. If you misclick, you must start over. Most late 90's offline editing maps were billions better.
But these cool kids will never understand functionality vs ubiquity.
I really hate how the order of "Images Video Maps .." changes on Google depending on the query. The UI shuffling around unpredictably makes it that much harder to find anything from positional memory.
It seems like a lot of changes in software now are made just for the sake of change.
But in a way it makes sense for the developers, if there is nothing left to change or for them to work on, there is no reason for them to still have their jobs.
Why fix bugs when instead you can just move things around and make things more flashy in an attempt to make management think you are making the app more 'responsive' or 'increasing user engagement'
