Question 5: Why Ignore 15+ Years of Mobile UX Evolution?

grenudi

Ubuntu Touch appears to ignore 15+ years of Android UX evolution and established design standards like Material Design, which billions of users understand intuitively. Instead, it starts from scratch with Lomiri's outdated Unity8 paradigms from 2013-2016.

Android spent over a decade perfecting their UI year by year through user testing with billions of people. This isn't just aesthetics - it's psychology. People got used to these patterns. The whole world did.

Without being dramatically better than industry standards (and let's be honest - it's not), isn't this approach destined to remain a niche product? You have to make something twice as good or comply with standards. Otherwise you end up like Linux desktop was for decades - a niche geek thing that only recently started climbing out.

Why not adopt modern, proven UI patterns or at least offer Material Design theming to reduce friction for new users?

sixwheeledbeast

Just go and use Android or other Android like OS if you want something like that...
Have you considered that doing something different is not ignoring anything.
As for intuitive this is relative to what people have used before.
People will have there own personal and group goals for these FOSS projects. Just because they don't align with your vision of what you believe should be done, doesn't give you the right to complain other people are wrong. It contributes nothing to moving forward.

CiberSheep

@grenudi Well, some quick items about this:

Lomiri (aka Unity8) has 15 years of development (>)
Unity is developed by a professional and capable team of designer and UX experts. I don't know why random people get the idea that the desktop is designed to be «just different from X».
Lomiri has its own language and design. Object of which are simple, intuitive and beatifull.
Ubuntu Touch is not Android.
Ubuntu users are used to Unity patterns. So, have them in Ubuntu Touch makes sense to us.
(offtopic) Andoird UI is a mess, but the more time passes, the more it adopts Unity design language.