"Nothing at all is user-centric anymore..." In my observation, this has certainly been the trend. In my experience, in this climate you have to look harder to

"Nothing at all is user-centric anymore..." In my observation, this has certainly been the trend. In my experience, in this climate you have to look harder to find it user-focused software, and to some extent you have to write some of it yourself. This is because the software world has been flooded with "easy to use" programs that are either located on third party computers or must automatically connect to third party computers in order to be useful. To be truthful, I'm not sure that many users of today, i.e., younger ones, really understand what we mean by user-centric and user-focused. They may think if something is made "easy" for them, then it's user-focused. But where computer software is involved, we've seen it is precisely the opposite. If users want more control then they have to endure a little inconvenience, at least in the short term. The easier and more "frictionless" the software, the more the user should understand that the software has not been written so much for their benefit as for someone else's.