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this annoys me so much about certain big companies that only build for "everyone", they alienate power users. sure, maybe they're accessible and work for 98% of

this annoys me so much about certain big companies that only build for "everyone", they alienate power users. sure, maybe they're accessible and work for 98% of people and use cases which is lovely, but they vehemently refuse to give the user control over anything because it looks bad for their stats. and there's a maintenance cost and yada yada, i don't care about the reasons, just saying that there's a market for serving these special use cases even if its a smaller market, its probably enough for a small business

quacked 4y ago
> sure, maybe they're accessible and work for 98% of people and use cases which is lovel... After experiencing many different proprietary apps, working professionally on both Windows and Mac systems, and studying the principles of intuitive design, I have come to the conclusion that nearly any organization who "designs for 98% of users" is actually just terrible at design and couldn't design for the 2% of power users if they tried. Either they lack the talent, or they lack the organizational flexibility to hand the reins over to the actually talented people.
zzo38computer 4y ago
It annoys me too, I often find such things to be the case. Too many programs don't give the user control over anything; especially modern programs. There are many other things difference too, than how I thought they should be. So, often I write my own software, but sometimes I cannot. Many of my ideas are different from many programs. Better design is you have enough ropes to hang yourself and also a few more just in case (that is UNIX philosophy). (I also hate UEFI, USB, HDMI, WWW, PDF, Unicode, and some other things, so I try to make my own designs to avoid them as much as possible. I also think that any good program should need good documentation; without documentation it is not understandable.)

quacked 4y ago

> sure, maybe they're accessible and work for 98% of people and use cases which is lovel... After experiencing many different proprietary apps, working professionally on both Windows and Mac systems, and studying the principles of intuitive design, I have come to the conclusion that nearly any organization who "designs for 98% of users" is actually just terrible at design and couldn't design for the 2% of power users if they tried. Either they lack the talent, or they lack the organizational flexibility to hand the reins over to the actually talented people.

zzo38computer 4y ago

It annoys me too, I often find such things to be the case. Too many programs don't give the user control over anything; especially modern programs. There are many other things difference too, than how I thought they should be. So, often I write my own software, but sometimes I cannot. Many of my ideas are different from many programs. Better design is you have enough ropes to hang yourself and also a few more just in case (that is UNIX philosophy). (I also hate UEFI, USB, HDMI, WWW, PDF, Unicode, and some other things, so I try to make my own designs to avoid them as much as possible. I also think that any good program should need good documentation; without documentation it is not understandable.)