On: Ubuntu: you’re doing it wrong

[MatthewPhillips]

But the person making the decisions not a designer. When you load Unity for the first time you have to be taken aback, or at least I was, but how glaringly ugly it is.

[kstenerud → MatthewPhillips]

"But the person making the decisions not a designer."

Who is making the design decisions (what's their name)?

How do you know this person is not a designer?

How do you know that there's only one person making the decisions?

[wmf → kstenerud]

With the title Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life, I think it's clear who's making the decisions.

[kstenerud → wmf]

Is it, though? Canonical states quite clearly that they employ a TEAM of designers to handle the UX aspects of Ubuntu. Unless you're suggesting that they're micro-managed, for which you'd need to supply some proof.