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> The real answer is, computers suck. Seriously, computers are effing awful machines No, they're amazing machines and don't suck. They just don't meet our arbi
by vacri 9y ago
> The real answer is, computers suck. Seriously, computers are effing awful machines
No, they're amazing machines and don't suck. They just don't meet our arbitrarily high expectations.
- digi_owl 9y agoAnd oddly enough, I find that they suck more as developers tries to make them suck less...
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoDeveloper and user definitions of "suck" are completely different. But [thread] OP is correct. UIs absolutely do suck. The proof is that after fifty years of UI design, there's still no such thing as a standard system/technique/anything for assessing the quality, reliability, and effectiveness of a user interface. There's been almost no effective research into cataloguing the most common kinds of user error OR developer error and designing systems that minimise those errors. There's a lot of tribal and religious noise about operating systems and languages, but virtually none of it is based on empirical research.