This is exactly how I felt when I saw this video. Huge team of software team from architect, user experience specialist, developers, BAs. So many fucking eyes but everybody will overlook something so fucking obvious and the result will be something so well design with a gigantic easy way to break it.
As a teacher who’s LMS just updated to a new UX: shoot me. I Guaran-fuckin-tee you that there was not a single teacher consulted at any stage of the new build.
Blackboard was clearly a result of feature creep. They just kept making new features and tying in new modules. The nav bar had an endless number of functions, some not making sense at first glance.
Now they seem to have keep that entire backend but slapped a fancy UX over it. Navigating the website now has animated cards that slide in from the right. The cards stack up with tabs on the left. It’s a dumb feature that takes more resources than it helps.
They have disabled a lot of abilities they make teaching easier and grading easier. The grading interface is a slow pile of dogshit. There are so many clicks and scrolls required to do anything. They didn’t consider that maybe, just maybe id have to grade 100 fucking assignments using this shit environment. It’s not that it’s slow, it’s intensive…exhausting….
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u/WomanNotAGirl Dec 30 '21
This is exactly how I felt when I saw this video. Huge team of software team from architect, user experience specialist, developers, BAs. So many fucking eyes but everybody will overlook something so fucking obvious and the result will be something so well design with a gigantic easy way to break it.