As I've grown older (mid 30s now), I've noticed over time that I have begun to strongly prefer lightweight, minimal, focused, efficient things in all sorts of areas of life, including software.
For a while I was in the "lol can't believe this business still uses a DOS program!" camp... but that knee-jerk reaction has faded and I'm completely on the other end now. I'm not anti new technologies, but I am skeptical that they are ultimately always better than what preceded them.
There is so much we have that is "new" that feels far worse than what we had before. Smart TVs, bloated/slow software, etc.
The design side of my brain still feels like even just a few lines of CSS could probably spruce up the site for this software (just in terms of colors/font), but even then, is it really necessary? He likes it the way it is, why not just keep it that way.
For a while I was in the "lol can't believe this business still uses a DOS program!" camp... but that knee-jerk reaction has faded and I'm completely on the other end now. I'm not anti new technologies, but I am skeptical that they are ultimately always better than what preceded them.
There is so much we have that is "new" that feels far worse than what we had before. Smart TVs, bloated/slow software, etc.
The design side of my brain still feels like even just a few lines of CSS could probably spruce up the site for this software (just in terms of colors/font), but even then, is it really necessary? He likes it the way it is, why not just keep it that way.