• Nine@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Maybe the main problem is that they don’t have the concept of trial and error. Yeah sure a printer has weird UX, but just press buttons and see what happens 😁.

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      People always wonder at my skill in picking up unfamiliar UIs, and its always just that I explore the interface thoroughly and press every likely-looking button

      • surrendertogravity@wayfarershaven.eu
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        When I was in my early teens I got my hands on a copy of Photoshop 7 from my granddad and spent so much time on tutorial websites and Worth1000, messing around with the tools and making fake digital post-its and stuff like that. I think Photoshop is definitely up there in terms of complex UIs, so having that hands-on experience was crucial in learning how to learn other UIs.

        It also helped that a lot of the tutorials by that point were for CS3, which had warp features that 7 didn’t have, and I had to experiment to find workarounds for the missing tools.

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        The only device where that has failed me was a washing maschine with a mixed analog and digital UI.

        With the old ones you could just turn the knobs. With the new ones you basically have a full touchscreen App interface. But for that period where things started to get more digital but not completely, it’s absolutely awful.

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      To be fair, printers are full of ghosts and demons. Even if you get to know how a printer works for years it’ll still randomly just do some crazy shit you weren’t expecting.