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0 pointstechjamie1y ago0 comments

That is in part because of the users, because so many of them don't want to explore the UI or try to figure out how it works. Instead, they just want to know what they have to click on to do the thing that they want to do. I've tried to teach so many people how to use these things that just refuse to actually look around, and instead look at me helplessly instead of reading what the screen says. Bear in mind, that is when UI are made to be discoverable.

I just lump it in with all the other changes that signal that companies don't really want people to think about what they're doing on the devices anymore. They just want them to look where they want them to.

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JohnFen1y ago

> because so many of them don't want to explore the UI or try to figure out how it works.

I've become one of them. It used to be that it was safe to experiment, because anything really damaging could be undone (which is an important part of discoverability). At some point, that stopped being a thing I could count on, so I've come to view experimentation as a risky thing.

But those nags don't solve the problem. They're really annoying, get in the way, and are rarely actually helpful. Nowadays, when they come up, I just close them without reading and get a bit irritated.

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