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I'm watching a video on the psychological tricks they use in technology, like "natural scrolling", smooth scrolling, elasticity, and skeleton loaders.
...I think I'm immune to these. They say, for example, skeleton loaders take a little more time but trick your brain in to perceiving less time because there's something there to process in the mean time. This has never worked on me, and I've always perceived that extra time and it angers me.

@hellomiakoda

Can we burn UX/UI to the ground? Circa 1990 I was fine. Now I want to kill people every time I interact even with devices which have no fucking right to have a computer embedded in them.

@angelastella The 90s fucking NAILED it with UI! Stuff had buttons, but it had the number of buttons appropriate for the device.
There were menus! I want to save a file? Huh, a whole menu about what to do with files and OH LOOK, save is right there where it makes sense to be. And EVERYTHING that used files had that menu.
Do you know how many times I reboot my TV in the entirety of 1983 to like 2010? ZERO!

@angelastella Why does my washer and dryer sing at me?! I fucking hate that shit! It has ERROR CODES! WTF?! My old one... ON. When the cycle was done, it was off and went BZZZ. No expensive control boards and shit.

@angelastella Granted, some stuff is awesome! I love that my lights are "smart" and I can control them from my bed, and turn my heater on before I get home.
But you know what I got rid of fast? TELLING my lights to turn on. That sucked.
Turns out, I just wanted more buttons so I could put buttons in the places I will be.

@hellomiakoda

Buttons, switches and knobs are good for machines. Seeing and pointing and listening and talking are for people.

@angelastella ...For the record, I will be fine with artificial people seeing and talking and listening. People =/= human.

But my laptop, and the server that turns my lights on... Button. Or click a button on a screen.
...most human-like thing I have it do is read out my sensors cause I can't see shit with my glasses off.

@hellomiakoda

If a machine is also a person I apply person rules. That's not under discussion.

A long time ago I hoped to become a machine, but... well, you know how well that's going.

Miakoda

@angelastella I know. I so badly wish to be an robot. I so badly hate being a biological life form.

@hellomiakoda

Yep. Biology is weird. And mostly unrepairable. I'm a widow because of that.