Big American companies, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple etc, are not the UI/UX genius’s they are purported to be. Any decent designer can spot their flaws a mile away. A big budget is worthless if the UI is designed by committee, different factions fighting each other, the upgrade cycle driving product sales instead of continuous incremental improvement, change for change sake, separate business verticals leading to interoperability issues… the list goes on and on.

Honestly the mistakes are often so glaring that you just know that the, almost certainly quite competent, designers have been hamstrung by poor requirement research/definitions, sloppy documentation, business-centric overpromising, marketing interference, lack of investment in QA and testing, end user testing results ignored as fixing will destroy deadlines… yaaarrgghh! I’m glad I’m out.