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Speaking as a tech person, I think usability matters (or at least should matter) to tech people too. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I increasingly find that h
by rainsford 4y ago
Speaking as a tech person, I think usability matters (or at least should matter) to tech people too. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I increasingly find that having cool features or security improvements isn't enough to make me like a product and that well designed usability is itself a tech feature worth admiring.
Most people like when technology is easy to use, but tech people can also appreciate when technology is a well designed complete package that makes it so the most people can benefit from the cool tech improvements. My favorite example here is Signal, which both significantly improved upon the security of previous solutions like PGP encrypted email and was a massive usability improvement such average people could take advantage of the security it offered. As a tech person, I appreciate the latter at least as much if not more than the former. Security keys check the first box, but I'm not sure they've got the usability thing down yet.
- brookst 4y agoOh, I agree. I recently purged my house of any USB-C cable that can’t charge my laptop. That means no long high speed cables. But knowing that power will always work is more important than maximizing transfer speeds for my applications.