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Criticizing Computers
As software has taken over the world, we have fallen out of love with innovation in the material world (when was the last time we got excited over something the way previous generations got excited over plastic?) as well as the processes and systems engineering that go with it.
Sriram Krishnan • Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 2
I think these are symptoms of chronic, pervasive problems with the way we develop and interact with software. Messing up my formatting upon copy-and-paste is a data-corruption bug, but we don’t think of it this way. Imagine if every time you copied something, half the letters would just come out randomly scrambled.
Feifan Zhou • No One Cares About Software Quality
To make things worse, it turns out that the desktop metaphor underlying so much of our computing was not equipped to handle it either. In response to the increased stimuli, our Desktops simply started generating more clutter. Windows upon windows of tabs and tabs, folders within folders of Untitled(1). Never-ending, nebulous clutter.
UX Collective • The desktop metaphor must die
