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

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

    • whofearsthenight@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I honestly think it’s mostly a problem with the idea that the Office apps are extremely bloated, kitchen sink apps. No one should be looking at Word or Libre Writer and thinking “I’m going to build a contracting system for my clients out of that” or “I bet I could make an inventory system in there” and yet…

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        Yep.

        People try to use Word as a desktop publishing app then complain how it shifts images around. Thats because it’s for documents, which flow page to page.

        Use Publisher for DTP, or a real, industry app. Same problem of using Excel for a database purpose.