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Oh, come on. The Excel user interface encourages mistakes, as surely as a bicycle with handlebars that steer backwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBz
by rectang 2y ago
Oh, come on. The Excel user interface encourages mistakes, as surely as a bicycle with handlebars that steer backwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
It's not all on the users.
- dudus 2y agoI had a different interpretation of the video you linked. It seems to me even a backwards bicycle is perfectly drivable as long as you adjust you mental model. In that sense the excel UI doesn't make sense only for those not used to it. Which might be a nice analogy
- TeMPOraL 2y agoAt least it's a bicycle. Remember the whole "computer as bicycle for the mind" thing? That didn't happen, the world went in the opposite direction. Software like Excel are the last surviving remnants of the idea of empowering end users to improve their work and lives.
- happytoexplain 2y ago> Software like Excel are the last surviving remnants of the idea of empowering end users to improve their work and lives. I agree. I love Excel. But this attitude only makes sense if we assume one can only fix easy-to-make mistakes by dumbing the software down, which is not true.