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AI button pop up should cover about %70 of the screen
See, you’re thinking like a user. You gotta think like a CEO tho. There’s no AI button popup, the AI features are automatically activated when you use the tools. You gotta go into the settings and explicitly disable automatic AI actions. And only THEN do you get the AI popup to pwease use the AI features.
AutoCAD installing three million micro services just to get their shit pirated anyways.
FreeCAD works great these days.
It’s pretty decent! Huge learning curve coming from Fusion360 since it does everything so differently, but once I got the basics down I can do simple models at least.
Also why the fuck do they need basically my entire identity just so i can write words on a document?
Usually to make sure your document is synced with the cloud.
And then sell my data to the highest bidder.
To their credit, they do a bit more than just that. They also sync your personal information with their cloud, and often, the clouds of third parties as well.
Might be wrong speak, or a new idea they can steal!
Or to train their shitty ai models?
Sadly most open source software is a usability disaster zone, filled with buttons and menus which have nothing to do with what the user is trying to do.
I don’t find this is often the case nowadays. But there are so many open source programs, it’s not the best to make blanket statements like this.
I’m thinking of Blender, Ardour, Kdenlive, Darktable… Krita…
But but gimp is so unusable 🙄
Don’t think that open source is immune to this, OnlyOffice has an AI button and many OSS devs are integrating Claude into their dev nowadays. It’s getting annoying.
tbf ai can be useful, and will be even more useful once we optimize it enough that you can just run good models locally, without being a slave to the llm coorps. even if they will technically always have the “frontier”, most of these applications don’t really need the best of the best
we should strive to achieve that since it won’t go away, and you can’t really fight it long term
It kills me that fucking everything is a fucking website these days, even “desktop” applications.
Though not having to download and install a random program from the Internet, with full access to your hard disk, if often nice. When running in the browser, it is automatically sandboxed hard.
The hamburger menu, the account picker and the huge share pill, they all look exactly like that!
Congrats OP this meme actually annoyed me 😭Yesterday describing how to do a thing to my wife over the phone “The menu button” “There is no menu button” “It’s a hamburger icon” “What?” “3 lines” “How is that a menu?”
I often help my parents use their phones.
It is so hard when every app they use has its own garbage bespoke design language and you get such pearls as:- Buttons and tabs can be any combination of Colored Square, White Square with Outline or Grey Text on White Background (and they switch every screen!)
- Modals without a scroll bar so you can’t tell there’s a “Confirm” button at the bottom
- Awfully confusing share dialogs before the Native system share sheet opens
- Inconsistent iconography
- Overflow menus hidden behind 3 dots, 3 lines or neither
I feel like it’s almost second nature for tech savy people to wade thru this crap but for your average granny this shit is practically unparseable.
It’s because tech savvy people see digital products like old people would see a thingamajig out of a woodshop. We have an inherent understanding that the thing we’re looking at had a creator intention behind it, as well as an understanding that they may have done a poor job implementing that intention. We understand more underlying patterns to look for. We have a deeper intuition of what is “right” and that any “wrong” can be infinitely different than any other “wrong.” We know the internet isn’t prod; the internet is like your feature branch on steroids. We understand that the internet often uses fancy tricks to scale, and those tricks can lead to behaviors which seem to contradict causality (e.g., distributed systems, you receive a message before it was sent because of eventual consistency). These are problems we’ve been exposed to over and over, forced ourselves to work our way through them, even built some of the machines that had these issues.
Old people had similar advantages with things like housework, woodwork, automotive work, …
And then we have insanity like Instagram, where the logo opens a separate area
How the hell does the logo ever load anything but the home screen?
Back during covid we sent my wife’s grandparents a smart phone so they could video call. They only had a dumb brick phone.
I forget what model but it was one specifically aimed at easy of use for seniors. We had it delivered so I could set it up. Then delivered it to them ready to go.
It was impossible. Even just answering a call being touch and hold the green circle then slide it 2cm in any direction and release took nearly an hour.
My wife does social care now and a client yesterday had managed to enable audio description on his firestick. This is what i was explaining. Hold back and menu on the remote to turn it on/off. He’d probably done it by accident and now his TV is explaining everything on screen after every button press and he has no clue where to even begin to turn it off. It’s utterly incomprehensible. I’m sure they thought it was a good idea to have a way to turn it on that doesn’t need you to see the screen.
We’ve got my 95 old grandma https://enna.care/ and she can use it. Instead of having to use the touch interface it works by placing cards on to an NFC reader.
This is awesome! My Dad has trouble speaking so voice commands are no go. I wonder if the cards can be customized by someone they trust for new/other actions.
I’m working on a mobile app, this commentary is very helpful to me.
I think a great test is grab a 5 year old budget phone with low screen resolution and slow CPU, and hand it to a few people with your app on it for a few minutes. See what they complain about or can’t figure out.
If you want to help the grannies of the world, grab an older budget device with a not so big screen resolution and crank the device scale / text size super high.
Man, you would not believe what havoc that causes on most apps.I know responsive design is hard but damn…
Very Adobe
how it feels going from using a 2003 software for work to a newer version
Yet both should learn from each other.
The FOSS world needs more UX/UI specialists.
Donate to your favorite project.
The FOSS world needs more UX/UI specialists.
Or even just hobbyists…
Personally I think a lot of FOSS maintainers are burning out. If you maintain a remotely popular project you basically have a second unpaid job.
For the average user — yes; for me — I don’t care.
Most of my work is in the terminal either way so I tend to care way more about a searchable documentation, reference, manual. Other than that I really like the textual toolbar with dropdowns plus some context menus.
I want my interface to be dense with accessible information.There’s room for flare tho, I still need feedback on my actions: hovers, drags, clicks, etc.
No.
Please expand on your posture. I’m intrigued.
UX and UI specialists is how you get the crap that is foisted on us today.
Famous example when you unleash them on a project: Windows 8.
I will admit it is a knee jerk reaction, and it seems like maybe we are turning a corner to refinement over mass changes.
One of the major issues with paid software and UX and UI designers is that in order to keep a job, they keep making changes. And nothing is worse than making changes to customary patterns.
Perhaps FOSS wouldnt have that problem, as the job is labor of love. Who knows.
Fuck this is quintessential enshittificaction of modern interface
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“Make the best software we can” vs “Make the most money we can”
Valid on both side, honest soft and services vs which are not, the worst malware is mostly FOSS which you can find in the onion. Also nowadays the biggest FOSS catalogue is by Google Labs and Microsoft, FOSS to make money. There are others, like the famose Irfanview, free proprietary soft and absolute trustworth and definitively the best which you can find, there don’t exist a real OpenSource alternative.
Absolutely - anything can have more than one objective. But when money is an objective, the one constant is that it changes what it affects. Sometimes better in some ways, sometimes worse.
Sport is a good analogy here, I think. Amateur sport has little impact beyond those directly involved. Adding money increases exposure of those sports, better facilities, lots of scope for good - and yet big money sports are also very often mired in corruption and greed. (FIFA being a timely example) Those base human behaviours never go away.
FIFA is simply a money wash engine, nothing to do with sport.
I’ve been seeing more and more
open sourcedisclosed source software that fits the category on the right…We tend to forget that the design on the left was the corporate ux language for a long time. Open source is just slower to fall for the trends, but they fall eventually.
This is about more than design. The right is pretty much just what flavor of the week looks like in CSS. This is about web devs infecting desktop software
Cool pic.
Not sure where it originated, but originally saw it here https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/47101580But the icons are so much prettier on the right!
/s
And would you look at all that beautiful whitespace!
