Oddbean new post about login | logout UX designers who eliminated the filesystem from user consciousness in name of simplicity ruined the world and are morally culpable for shriveling minds of children who are unable to tackle the challenges of today thanks to a choice sold as advocacy for the user but was ultimately motivated by control of a disempowered customer.
@ed044e85 The absolute misery and struggles I had teaching basic file management to students back even in like 2015 who had no idea that a file had to exist somewhere when downloaded, and you need to open files to work with them in a GUI tool... I felt bad because we wasted so much effort on this at the expense of later topics in #GIS.
@ed044e85 Not exclusive to children. Also adults, including boomers, whose first encounter with technology is their first iPhone. No concept of files, directories, folders. Everything is somehow magically "in the app". Send them a file, they don't know what to do with it.
@ed044e85 Back in the early 80s, a client, who ran a small business, purchased Peachtree accounting software. Ok, if you must... After I installed it, he started it up and was astonished that his data wasn't in there. 🤣 Somehow, he expected that his accounts would magically appear in the files. It took a while to explain.
That’s actually a fair point, I read an article about how Gen Z sucks at computers now because they are used to bright colored buttons lmao
@ed044e85 There are developers who don't know any shell commands whatsoever, on any OS.