the.com/redesign
Changing everything so users complain it's different, then changing it back in v2.
means To rebuild something's structure or appearance, usually from the ground up rather than just patching it.
from Simple carpentry of prefix and root: 're-' (again, from Latin re-) bolted onto 'design,' which traces back through French 'designer' to Latin 'designare' — to mark out, to trace a plan. So a redesign is literally a re-marking of the plan, a second drawing-up of the blueprint. The word itself has been quietly doing this since design has existed as a noun; nothing scandalous in its past, just the ordinary human habit of deciding the first draft wasn't it.
- real reason
- new manager wants fingerprints on something
- users want
- same thing, but faster, forever
- cycle length
- roughly 18 months, like clockwork regret
- true metric
- success measured by complaint volume, oddly