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Things will only get worse. The application paradigm is unsustainable. https://medium.com/@miguelrochefort/the-application-paradigm-is-unsustainable-4071f392d2

• gue5t 9y ago
  You're entirely right, but "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" certainly applies to the entire "tech" industry, and the app factory in particular. I expect this realization will only become widespread when open-source folks actually fix their software's deep-seated usability problems. The way to do that is not by hiring UX designers or appifying it; it's by thinking deeply about how humans interact with computers and blowing away the conventions that make computers and software unforgiving, hard to explore, and opaque to the uninitiated.
  • kec 9y ago
    ...So by hiring / lucking into someone whose job it is to look at UX. Like a designer.
• sidlls 9y ago
  The current alternative, treating the Browser like a poorly implemented, feature-scarce OS on which to run "web apps", is worse.