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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

Scott Jenson, a veteran UX designer formerly at Apple and Google, argues that the 'UX/UI' split pits programmers against designers and narrows ambition in open source. He makes the case that desktop UX has stagnated and that open source projects could lead experimentation beyond current interaction models.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters cite it when discussing stagnating desktop UX, Apple's design decline, and open source's chance to experiment with new interaction models.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Canonical Ubuntu
Topic
desktop user experience
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
8
Recommendation years in dataset
2025–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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    finnlab on Hacker News · 2026-01
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  • Scott Jenson - who worked on the classic Mac for Apple, and Android for Google - recently gave a talk on this: [VIDEO] The tl;dw is that copying UX lets others invest energy in identifying the paradigm. Linux, which tends to be starved for resources, …

    bsimpson on Hacker News · 2026-01
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  • It may have jumped the shark, but it may be that now there's space for actual experimentation and innovation again. This talk from Scott Jenson (who worked at Apple in Human Interfaces) was thought-provoking and gave me a little optimism: [VIDEO]

    glkindlmann on Hacker News · 2026-01
    In The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

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