✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

XXIIVV — stack

wiki.xxiivv.com · 785 words · saved by 1 readers

In mainstream computing, ease of use is usually implemented as superficial simplicity, as an additional layer of complexity that hides the underlying layers. Meanwhile, systems that are actually very simple and elegant are often presented in ways that make them look complex to laypeople. Steve Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a bicycle for the mind — But what he really sold us was a train for the mind, which goes only between where rails and stations have been laid down by armies of laborers. I always told people that the thing computers are best at is adding unwanted complexity. If I am in a room full of computer professionals I think I am in a room full of people who mostly make their living dealing with computer fat. If you ask that room full of people what their companies do what will they say: We sell software to clean up the garbage left behind by your programs. We sell software to deal with the growing complexity of your software. We just keep

XXIIVV - stack Imagine that software development becomes so complex and expensive that no software is being written anymore, only apps designed in devtools. In mainstream computing, ease of use is usually implemented as superficial simplicity , as an additional layer of complexity that hides the underlying layers. Meanwhile, systems that are actually very simple and elegant are often presented in ways that make them look complex to laypeople. Steve Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a bicycle for the mind - But what he really sold us was a train for the mind ,

Explore this link on the map →

related reading