Google and apple already know who you are, the company at the bottom doesn't

Wrong, the google product is dead

People at my company are like "why are we wasting screen real estate with white space?" and I imagine they see the last image is an ideal UX

more checkboxes == more better

Honestly, I'd rather have an ugly app with everything right there than the terrible UX trend that's happening of everything being hidden behind 8-10 different menus just to make the home screen "clean"

If your company is implementing an app that is basically a toggle switch or power button, it'll probably look like the first one. If your company is implementing an internal search engine, it'll probably look like the second one. If anybody is implementing a data entry system meant to be used by trained individuals at a workstation, its gonna look like option three. You might as well complain about a CNC mill being more complicated than a screwdriver, they're different tools.

There's a difference between software that's designed to be easy for people that haven't seen it before and software that's meant to be used by someone that's been trained to use it.

There is a clear difference here: the first software, you pay to use. The last one, you get paid to use it.

And you are asked to add more fields and buttons, but the interface was made in a very old version of visual studio and it breaks something every time you open it up in the editor.

The honestly prefer the bottom one than the modern 50 step wizards that take 10 seconds for each page to load, and load an ungodly amount of JS scripts.

A company I worked for was using an ancient bug tracking tool (called Pivotal) that looked like a 90s site. It was so fast and responsive. Later, we moved to something modern. It was 10 times worse, significantly slower and overly complex.

1. Those apps are simple
2. Those apps target a wide audience, hence have more budget as a result
3. Those apps are made by large, well oiled (you'd hope at least) companies. You don't want my honest opinion on most small software development boxes. This industry grew faster than mentors became available for the newbies, so many devs including seniors still don't know what they are doing.

Ngl I prefer said company app rather than "new" stuff which runs on Electron and breaks just from looking at it

"We want to look like Apple" while insisting on every bit of whitespace be filled.

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I'm not really sure why both first name and city are required but I hate oversimplified mobile designs. Whenever a web page loads everything into a big rounded edge middle column I do a little angry exhale.

I'm an adult with a mouse and keyboard, I don't need giant baby buttons and you can load more than two rows of something at a time ffs.

This is not true. Literally all of apples computers lack the touch feature on their primary screens.

Good.

You need all that information, but no more. This allows me to efficiently supply it, properly formatted, and to supply no more. Assuming this is using standard widgets instead of reinvented ones, the only better thing would be an API so we can roll our own form or automate.

The FAANG approach relies on an army of people to do the data entry equivalent of mind reading, or invasiveness, or both, and all so that you have to look at a few less boxes for a minute.

At least it doesn't have ads

I am getting flashbacks on dealing with SAP "inspired" software that looked worse than that bottom image. I am glad my new company does not use that garbage. It was especially depressing to see how SAP entirely ruined Concur.

Whoever made this has never used Google Cloud Platform.

Your company's app is SAP

Yay, options.

We have to get permission from Marketing, the CEO, the Pope, and the ghost of Queen Elizabeth 2 to change anything about the layout, so we just jamb in more buttons.

Every few months the layout gets reshuffled as well for no fucking reason.

Everyone knows what DK9B is, we don’t need better labels.

Ohh its easy. Its sap