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Re:The digital native is a myth by digi_owl on Monday July 31, 2017 @12:02AM (#14889377)
And oddly enough, I find that they suck more as developers tries to make them suck less...
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Re:The digital native is a myth by TheOtherHobbes on Monday July 31, 2017 @05:19AM (#14890512)
Developer and user definitions of "suck" are completely different.

But [thread] OP is correct. UIs absolutely do suck.

The proof is that after fifty years of UI design, there's still no such thing as a standard system/technique/anything for assessing the quality, reliability, and effectiveness of a user interface.

There's been almost no effective research into cataloguing the most common kinds of user error OR developer error and designing systems that minimise those errors.

There's a lot of tribal and religious noise about operating systems and languages, but virtually none of it is based on empirical research.

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