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supergeeWe are in the Age of Inadvertent Programming. I am glad that World War III has not been started by someone inadvertently bumping into a touch screen, but I don’t know how long our luck will last.
I am both old and dyspraxic, so it’s not surprising that I have trouble with interfaces, but I just shared/blogged an article about the problem, and many people feel the same way.
I have realized for a long time now that two-valued logic is not a good way of dealing with issues like sex and race, but I miss the days when pushbuttons worked that way. The article notes that the iPhone (which I am fortunate enough not to have) conveys one message if you press it lightly and another if you press it just hard enough. There’s a lot of that going around. Facebook can, as usual, serve as a Horrible Example: When I use wheel on my mouse, I sometimes Like things and offer to friend people because my touch is not delicate enough.
GUIs are gooey. I feel as if they were quicksand I am sinking into.
I am both old and dyspraxic, so it’s not surprising that I have trouble with interfaces, but I just shared/blogged an article about the problem, and many people feel the same way.
I have realized for a long time now that two-valued logic is not a good way of dealing with issues like sex and race, but I miss the days when pushbuttons worked that way. The article notes that the iPhone (which I am fortunate enough not to have) conveys one message if you press it lightly and another if you press it just hard enough. There’s a lot of that going around. Facebook can, as usual, serve as a Horrible Example: When I use wheel on my mouse, I sometimes Like things and offer to friend people because my touch is not delicate enough.
GUIs are gooey. I feel as if they were quicksand I am sinking into.
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Date: 2020-10-14 09:04 pm (UTC)The problem is that programmers and other computer brained people always say, “just go explore--you’ll get it” and they don’t get that we don’t LIKE exploring computer functions--we want computer functions to help us explore more of our world with as little of our dwindling brain space and power focused on this tool as possible. Learning the tool doesn’t make my brain feel sharper and grow synapses--reading and exploring the world and those in it does and the people who design these tools and love the design have differently functioning brains and the gap needing bridging between our brains may be growing.
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Date: 2020-10-15 08:19 pm (UTC)