I have patience for people that are willing to try and learn (like my 80 year old Grandma). It's those that have given up already and spend the whole time being defeatist and hinting that they want you to it for them, those people annoy me!
I'm fairly sure the majority of the time it's because people want others to do it for them. Not the case of 'they don't know how to' it's more a case of 'Someone else do it for me'.
I work in education sector yet the educators don't want to be educated...
Modern interfaces are awful.
Washing machine:
I can identify one freaking icon on there, the wool wash, everything else is meaningless so I use the same program my wife appeared to use and just vary the temperature occasionally.
- Customer asking us how to install a cracked copy of Office lol.
Icons instead of words are one of the worst sins a designer can make, because icons are so open to individual interpretation, such designers should be executed.
Also, the word "Menu", for instance, is nice and small and concise and so you design your button "space" accordingly. However, The word "Menu" in Afrikaans is "Spyskaart" and suddenly it doesn't fit in the designated space any more; and that's just one example, there are loads of instances where, in English, it's a tiny word and in other languages it can be like 3 long words because they literally don't have a single word for that function.
B@
quick off topic question, do swear words get sensored automatically now? Hence the yellow ****?If you look at the other side of the fence you will see that most of the world doesn’t give a **** about how gadgets work and they just want everything to work by pressing one or two buttons. If it’s not simple then they won’t bother trying to work it out. Maybe geeks should not be the only ones involved in the design process....
If you look at the other side of the fence you will see that most of the world doesn’t give a **** about how gadgets work and they just want everything to work by pressing one or two buttons. If it’s not simple then they won’t bother trying to work it out. Maybe geeks should not be the only ones involved in the design process....
:s I'm going to be terrified now every time I want to call someone, for example you, a ****lets see
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i do believe so sir
Right it all comes down to laziness, designers that can't be bothered to do basic language research and resort to another design sin; fixed size icons. There's a reason why user interface functions like .setSize() are no longer used in computer programming, it's this very reason!
Indeed, a lot of people automatically take the path of least resistance. It's not helping anyone.
If you look at the other side of the fence you will see that most of the world doesn’t give a **** about how gadgets work and they just want everything to work by pressing one or two buttons. If it’s not simple then they won’t bother trying to work it out. Maybe geeks should not be the only ones involved in the design process....