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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
And they GUIs were better back then, because they thought about what suited them and what didn’t, and the graphics chosen were MUCH clearer what they were for.
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Graphical interfaces, much more so these days, are flawed in so many ways.
Even then they require scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and fit about 3 things on a page that could 3-4 times as much.
And the images chosen are often not that clear as to what they are for (they may be hi-resolution but they are cluttered or poor choice) so it’s easy to either miss things or waste time needing to make extra button presses to see what the show actually is.
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Back then they were constantly working on the design and trying to come up with something better. Nowadays its just stick an image on there and forget about it. They don't really help with content discovery if the image doesn't tell the viewer very much. A few words can often summarise the content much better than a pic.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
...and a fair few of them are out of date eg presenters who left years ago, logos which have been suoerceded by new ones etc.
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True but failure to update isn't confined to graphical layouts, that can happen whatever the interface.