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I don't think its disigenuous, though. I think these 'best practices' are really just the software equivalent of legalese speak. If you had to run an install w
by smaudet 5y ago
I don't think its disigenuous, though. I think these 'best practices' are really just the software equivalent of legalese speak.
If you had to run an install wizard, use a key, and upload a photograph of yourself everytime you wanted to, say, put orange juice in the fridge, your average user would scream bloody murder and rightly call your product bloody garbage.
What you might see is a caretaker sign documents for a terminally disabled patient who need assisted living services and then put orange juice in the fridge...which is where the mistake comes from.
This is the software equivalent of getting a lawyer and a caretaker involved every damn time you put orange juice in the fridge - because it works for the disabled few corporations mistake 'accesibilty' for good design... And then you realize this is 'standard practice' and finally understand how abhorrently terrible pretty much every damn website, app, and program on the planet is...
Dropbox is absolute garbage. So is Apple. They need to remove 95 percent of their garbage for the average user - the option to use the assisted living features should be available but not turned on by default.
- fuzzy2 5y agoYeah I’m going to have to disagree completely here. Not only does your analogy not match the situation (setting it up is a one-time thing), you basically argue that… software was hard to write, it should be hard to use. I firmly believe the opposite should be the case: Most software should be accessible to everyone. This is absolutely imperative to advance mankind. Elitist thinking won’t help with that.