Comment on "Learned Helplessness" & the Tech Literacy Crisis | Internet Analysis [25:54] - TiffanyFerg
andrewta@lemmy.world 3 months agoOn a very narrow section, for me, I’ve gotten really tired of crappy interfaces. Zero logic in how they are designed. No ability for the end user to use logic to figure out how to use it. Just blindly hit a bunch of keys and hope you get the result you want. Then memorize how you got there.
It just pisses me off.
I’m at the point where it works right and works logically or I’ll toss it/return it and find something that does work.
I used to the guy that people would ask, how does this work. Now I literally can’t figure it out most times without a ton of research.
Like I said, once I got to that point, I just said screw it.
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, some interfaces have somehow contorted themselves to being utterly inaccessible in efforts to be maximally accessible.
Whether that’s removing any immediately visible buttons whatsoever, only displaying vague icons (with no text labels) only to be seen in that software, or weirdly expecting a certain degree of old/new tech familiarity that may be too old for younger people or too new to make sense for many to be that familiar with yet.
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
On desktop/laptop computers I call it “appifying”, a great example is Firefox, it used a classic customizable UI up untill version 29 when it launched a major redesign called Australis, making Firefox look like chrome, removing a LOT of cool and useful features, I hated it soo much I switched to a fork called Pale Moon, and only switched back to Firefox when they launched the Photon redesign a few years later.