After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

  • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s about time someone pointed this out. Look at all the things phones got rid of in their UI:

    • Clustering of icons on a desktop
    • Application windowing
    • Preferences located inside an application

    (It also gives up a lot of context-based right-clicking, but I personally consider the right-click a bad UI design choice.)

    Some things, like folders, are only barely implemented, with a host of features that we’ve had for decades removed. Ever tried to sort a phone group by creation date?

    I’m writing this on an iPad, which I would love to use as my daily driver, but because it runs iPad OS, there are so many productivity and organizational features missing relative to Mac OS that I do most important things on the laptop.

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      1 year ago

      Hate to break it to you, but these concerns are pretty specifically about iOS. Pretty much all of them have been addressed since the beginning and continue to be addressed today adequately on Android