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What Comes After User-Friendly Design? (fastcodesign.com)
Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, writing for FastCoDesign: "User-friendly" was coined in the late 1970s, when software developers were first designing interfaces that amateurs could use. In those early days, a friendly machine might mean one you could use without having to code. Forty years later, technology is hyper-optimized to increase the amount of time you spend with it, to collect data about how you use it, and to adapt to engage you even more. [...] The discussion around privacy, security, and transparency underscores a broader transformation in the typical role of the designer, as Khoi Vinh, principal designer at Adobe and frequent design writer on his own site, Subtraction, points out. So what does it mean to be friendly to users-er, people-today? Do we need a new way to talk about design that isn't necessarily friendly, but respectful? I talked to a range of designers about how we got here, and what comes next.
Khoi Vinh, principal designer at Adobe
lost interest right there
Boozer-friendly design
An interface that's easy to use when inebriated.
My UID is prime!
In those early days, a friendly machine might mean one you could use without having to code. Today, to me, a friendly machine means something you can fix by coding since it inevitably starts out broken (and not doing the right thing for me).
Ezekiel 23:20
^ user-unfriendly grammar suggestion
Table-ized A.I.
These lights are more correct than you think.
A glow plug really is shaped like a coil. (and it is an inductor too, because of its shape.)
The tyre pessure light means you need to get a mechanic to fix the tyre. When he bends over to reach it, you see some of his butt.