> This has been the case for a while. I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win10. Starting around Win8, the designers had full control, and most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows.
The idea that designers circa Win7 "ruined" windows UX/UI is just revisionist history. Windows has had pretty terrible UI/UX basically forever, and most Linux folks have known this since the early 90s, where KDE, GNOME, etc. were vastly superior to anything Microsoft was putting out. In fact, most ideas you see in MacOS these days can find their roots in early (and often experimental) Linux interfaces (from multiple desktops, to launchers, to Exposé).
The Windows design team was always terrible, and not to mention lazy[1]. Don't mean to throw shade on your ex-team, and I'm sure there's dozens of brilliant people working there, but the design has been an absolute dumpster fire for decades. And this comes from an almost exclusive Windows power user. (I just recently bought my first ever Mac laptop).
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/grhjuu/til_that_...
The idea that designers circa Win7 "ruined" windows UX/UI is just revisionist history. Windows has had pretty terrible UI/UX basically forever, and most Linux folks have known this since the early 90s, where KDE, GNOME, etc. were vastly superior to anything Microsoft was putting out. In fact, most ideas you see in MacOS these days can find their roots in early (and often experimental) Linux interfaces (from multiple desktops, to launchers, to Exposé).
The Windows design team was always terrible, and not to mention lazy[1]. Don't mean to throw shade on your ex-team, and I'm sure there's dozens of brilliant people working there, but the design has been an absolute dumpster fire for decades. And this comes from an almost exclusive Windows power user. (I just recently bought my first ever Mac laptop).
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/grhjuu/til_that_...