Did anyone who's been using Claude for years just feel less motivated to open it lately?
The Claude team made one of the dumbest product decisions I've seen in a while. And nobody's talking about it.
They literally built their design to trigger you into chatting. That warm orange on the send button, the plus icon... that wasn't random, that was intentional UX. It creates a subconscious "go ahead, press it" moment. And it worked. People were chatting more, coming back more.
Then they decided they want enterprise clients. Cool. So they went full minimalist, swapped out their brand colors for generic grey nothing... and quietly killed that psychological nudge. That one small thing that made you want to send just one more message.
And with it, a lot of people just... drifted off.
What gets me is the logic. Or the lack of it. Enterprise buyers don't choose AI tools because the send button is grey. They choose based on capability and trust. But the actual daily users... the ones who built Claude's reputation through word of mouth... they respond to feel. And you just made it feel like every other boring SaaS tool.
You onboarded me on the old design. I got hooked on the old design. Don't change it and expect the same behavior. That's not how habits work.
Stick with what got people in the door. PERIOD.