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It's unfortunate that the intuitive user interface for a new user is the goal for commercial reasons. Many people use computers 2-8 hour per day for their whol
by nabla9 5y ago
It's unfortunate that the intuitive user interface for a new user is the goal for commercial reasons.
Many people use computers 2-8 hour per day for their whole life. It would be worth of the effort to create secondary consistent UI that takes weeks to learn, even if it would increase productivity just 5%.
- goldcd 5y agoBut I don't think there are people out there happily burning 5% productivity to compensate for poor UI. Normally people are burning productivity by not learning/knowing what their existing UI provides. e.g. In windows windows-key+arrow, lets you snap windows to the side of the screen (or minimize, mazimize, shift monitor etc). Now I've absolutely no idea when this feature was introduced - but plenty of people are still reaching for their pointer device to drag stuff about. It's a nice feature. You don't forget it - but it's bad UX as I swear usage of it only spreads by word-of-mouth. No idea if MS invented it - or it was 'borrowed' from another OS.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoI don't see any reason OSs cannot be both more intuitive and afford more productivity than they currently do. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell neither is a goal of modern Desktop OSs.