In the wake of the classics
Users need to love. Users make up a large part of humanity. Not only the best part of it. Users created the world. It was they who built cities, erected high-rise buildings, built sewers and running water, blocked the streets and lit them with electric lamps. They spread culture all over the world, invented typography, invented gunpowder, threw bridges over rivers, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs, introduced a safety razor, destroyed a slave trade and found that fourteen tasty nutritious meals could be made from soy beans.
And when everything was ready, when the home planet took on a relatively comfortable appearance, computer scientists appeared.
It should be noted that the computer was also invented by users. But the computer people somehow immediately forgot about it. Meek and intelligent users were scolded. Companies created by users, passed into the power of computer scientists. The server rooms have doubled, office desks have narrowed to the size of a tobacco parcel. And users have become frightened to look at the smirks of computer scientists.
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In the office, users lead a martyr's life. For them, introduced new rules. They are forced to learn all the buttons in different business applications, that is, those programs where the interfaces are the worst and where a random mouse movement can delete data for a quarter without any confirmation.
In our world, an ordinary computer, designed, according to users, to calculate data and communications, has become a sacred cow for millions. He forever violates the peace of mind of workers and their families. If the user sometimes manages to perform some kind of non-trivial action with this hellish machine, the programmer is accountable for some unrecorded detail.
In general, the user authority is strongly shaken. They, who gave such wonderful people to the world such as Horace, Boyle, Marriott, Lobachevsky, Gutenberg and Anatole France, are now compelled to make faces in the most vulgar way only to remind of their existence. God, God, which in essence is not, to which you, who actually are not, brought the user!
learned a quote? If not, try to guess what the authors of the original wrote about a hundred years ago. This will help you build a very interesting analogy in the development of interfaces.
And when everything was ready, when the home planet took on a relatively comfortable appearance, computer scientists appeared.
It should be noted that the computer was also invented by users. But the computer people somehow immediately forgot about it. Meek and intelligent users were scolded. Companies created by users, passed into the power of computer scientists. The server rooms have doubled, office desks have narrowed to the size of a tobacco parcel. And users have become frightened to look at the smirks of computer scientists.
')
In the office, users lead a martyr's life. For them, introduced new rules. They are forced to learn all the buttons in different business applications, that is, those programs where the interfaces are the worst and where a random mouse movement can delete data for a quarter without any confirmation.
In our world, an ordinary computer, designed, according to users, to calculate data and communications, has become a sacred cow for millions. He forever violates the peace of mind of workers and their families. If the user sometimes manages to perform some kind of non-trivial action with this hellish machine, the programmer is accountable for some unrecorded detail.
In general, the user authority is strongly shaken. They, who gave such wonderful people to the world such as Horace, Boyle, Marriott, Lobachevsky, Gutenberg and Anatole France, are now compelled to make faces in the most vulgar way only to remind of their existence. God, God, which in essence is not, to which you, who actually are not, brought the user!
learned a quote? If not, try to guess what the authors of the original wrote about a hundred years ago. This will help you build a very interesting analogy in the development of interfaces.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/27200/
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