When I was growing up, we had operating systems that exposed a lot of the technical details about their inner workings, and websites that let us use code to customize them, like MySpace and Geocities. UX designers in tech have since optimized away most of the stuff that allowed and encouraged people to learn to use technology and now people get confused by files and browser tabs. And as the knowledge shrinks, more and more things have to be simplified away. I only ever see it as a one way road.
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Hi @Gargron,
this seems a thread about #convivlal #tools without naming it such.
Tools are either #emancipative or #convenient. The smarter they are. the dumber and more dependant you. The less smart the tools, the more skill is trained in you. Choose #agency or #convenience. #Priorities matter. #Longread: https://archive.org/details/illich-conviviality
@gargron Oh, you can't imagine how glad I am right now. I've blamed UI/UX so many times for making stuff worse.
So.
Much.
Worse.
Be it with HTML in emails, be it with "simplification". And I've had discussions so many times. .. oh, and how I've have blamed (and still do) Apple for hiding technical details behind "convenience", for making users dumb.
I know it feels ableist these days, but I am still convinced that technology (like, everything with computers) is too complex and too dangerous to be put in everyone's fingers. Or especially into politicians hands (see #fckplntr or every other surveillance dream or the recent signal "hack" or almost any regulation at the expense of the people instead of big tech or administration (at least in Germany))...
So thanks again fur the UI part.🙏
@Gargron Albert Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
(For people which don‘t trust citates, here is, what he really said: “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.” ;)
@Gargron it's too bad mastodon is a twitter clone instead of a myspace clone that would have been rad
70%population of world doesn't need to be a tech savy to use any thing.... People want simple and easy to use stuffs in life... Company that making/creating stuffs needs tech nerds to create those stuffs. because of simplicity & easy to use nature users ready to sacrifice their privacy too. I mean why people need technical knowledge about how a call or message works in background?
