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A List of What's Wrong with MS Teams

The UI and Navigation #

Scrollback in Chat Windows #

If you scroll up in a chat, there are a few issues

Unintuitive Message Box #

It’s the Little Things #

This is nowhere near an exhaustive list, just what I was able to recall while writing this post. The idea is that these small UI annoyance, the ugly UI, the cringe emojis — we all have to deal with these every time we use Teams, sometimes at the worst possible times when any annoyance feels much worse to us.

The sad part is, these issues are solved in many other chat programs, and MSFT has the talent to solve them — but here we are, every day, all cumulatively dealing with these tiny UX paper cuts every second across the world, all because MSFT does not care.

Steve Job said a lot of things, but I think he was right here:

The only problem with Microsoft is that they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And what that means is - I don’t mean that in a small way. I mean that in a big way. They don’t think of original ideas and don’t bring much culture into their products.