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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (3 children)

There's a difference between software that's designed to be easy for people that haven't seen it before and software that's meant to be used by someone that's been trained to use it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes and no. I did build several in-house enterprise applications and for this I know about this problem. And yes you're right, a lot of the complicated contexts are more complex than searching on Google.

But! Enterprise software architects have a tendency to make every feature as visible, and also making the apps as feature rich as possible. This comes with high costs.

I always try to establish a strive with exactly what google delivers.

Cage the user in his first decision, Filter or action and then show him or her the application with all the features feasible in the chosen context. It is amazing how complexity reduced most of these applications are when you just ask this first question.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I think it's more a case of needing to be idiot proof and provide the correct answer every time. Some people using it may have been trained but they also may be absolutely useless at using technology. Google may be simple but it doesn't give you exactly what you're looking for and all the relevant information on the first attempt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please remind Microsoft of this as they continue to “improve and modernize” windows.

Can’t even use keyboard shortcuts to save a damn picture in paintbrush.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It’s called Paint now. Back in the old days it was called Paintbrush. It’s an anachronism.

FWIW MS has Paint 3D now and will probably have Paint 365 and Paint Series X before we know it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Paint is still in the OS and hasn't changed. Paint 3D is different

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was always called Paint. Paintbrush is the Mac equivalent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hmm so back in Windows 3.1, Wikipedia said paintbrush was a Mac app from the early 90s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

MS renamed it for Windows 95, likely because of that and they were getting a lot of blowback for the interface in looking a lot like Mac anyway.

[–] mckean 2 points 9 months ago