Recently began working in R / 3. Of course, a powerful and useful program. But its usability remained in the last century. As a programmer, I guess how we developed SAP R / 3 for our company.
- And let's call simple objects clear to people by random codes. No, the secret meaning in the codes, of course, will be, but only for the initiated. Let people talk like cars.
- No, this is not quite absurd, let's admit the usual things with unusual names. Let people develop horizons. Well, like there is a "client", "favorite". And in general, more retro.
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- And let's make the controls so unusual that no one would guess that, for example, part of the panel is a button, but this box is a link.
- And let's display all that you can, buttons and fields on one screen, so that the user can use his entire brain to analyze the form.
- You say it, only let's make half of them inoperative, but that it was not obvious, and the other half will produce errors that you will not understand without addressing the programmer.
- Class! But let's reduce all the words in the error texts so that the user feels his inferiority.
- Yes, only this is not humiliating enough, let's confuse the logic of form management, so that people understand that they are working in a very complex and powerful program and their IQ is by no means short.
- I found a bunch of stupid icons here, let's understand how it goes.
- And for the advanced we will make ridiculous combinations of hot keys, let them not stand out.
- And let's make the reaction of form elements unpredictable. But everyone is accustomed to, that in all sorts of androids and iPhones, intuitive fields and buttons are boring. We will all be like a quest. Until you guess where and what to poke, you will not pass to the next level.
- And to improve the integration, let's introduce wireless data transfer. Let them write their codes on a piece of paper and insert them into another form.
- Well, still it is necessary to make everyone understand that normal printers are also inferior, since they cannot print from the program.
- Yeah, and those who still can, will type in the style of steampunk, like on a typewriter of my grandmother.
- Well, still it is possible to be joke so - we will translate the name of help articles into Russian, and leave the articles themselves in English. Stupid help, anyway, is not needed.
- Now it remains only to write step-by-step instructions with pictures for the mentally retarded - now this is the only possible way to work in the program.