Comment by dijit

Comment by dijit a day ago

You kid, but you might be onto something.

The majority of users are content with chromebooks, what does that tell you about the requirements of desktop computers today? It tells me that they are just niche professional tools; and professional tools largely suck for UX..

I had an interesting realisation the other day (that's tangentially related): on my iPhone and iPad: I can't access my work emails or chats at all. Yet on my significantly more difficult to secure laptops: no problem.

The mobile platforms have built-in mechanisms for remote attestation. Desktop operating systems do not.

I think as soon as companies realise that an iPad is "good enough" for email/excel/word workers, we'll see an even more precipitous decline of the desktop operating system experience.

pr3dr49 18 hours ago

"I think as soon as companies realise that an iPad is "good enough" for email/excel/word workers, we'll see an even more precipitous decline of the desktop operating system experience."

This has a ring of SurfacePro as a corporate EUC choice. Quite common these days.

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Liftyee a day ago

Maybe my definition of UX is behind the times, but I think professional tools have great UX for their intended users... Professionals.

Fine grained control, informative error messages, thought out keybinds, all make the system easier to use for experts

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dijit a day ago

Professional software is aimed at people who use it day in day out so they’re optimising for a different problem than software that’s aimed at the casual user.
Intuitiveness is often seen as a outright positive by most people but actually it’s more of a trade off. Often the greatest efficiency is achieved by interfaces that require a bit of learning by the user. The ultimate example of that is command line interfaces which are very powerful and efficient but require you to know what you’re doing and give you relatively little help.
You’re on the other side of a steep learning curve for a lot of professional software you use. A steep learning curve is bad UX.

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