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> Whether users could articulate what they're experiencing is a different question. The bad experience we're talking about had been normalised over the past 15
by 9dev 2y ago
> Whether users could articulate what they're experiencing is a different question. The bad experience we're talking about had been normalised over the past 15 years or so.
I could counter that by saying people have had unpleasant experiences with software before, too; being way too technical and non-intuitive is one of that.
But my point isn't just that users won't notice anyway, but optimising for that isn't a good strategy anymore—at least from the perspective of commercial software vendors. Performance tuning reaches a point of diminishing returns very quickly.
- rbanffy 2y agoOptimising for older hardware might not be a good commercial strategy, but I still get a kick out of making my software nimble and fast. I like to joke giving engineers fast machines is a mistake, that having them on 8GB dual-core Celerons would help optimise their software. OTOH, it’s also a valuable strategy to give them now the machines that’ll be mainstream when the product is finished. That one I learned from Alan Kay and the Alto.