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Windows 8 Designer Explains Why It Annoys You

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-had-one-job-ONE-JOB dept.
stmuk writes:

"BGR reflects on recent comments by a Metro designer. 'Metro is a content consumption space,' Microsoft UX designer Jacob Miller explains, 'It is designed for casual users who only want to check Facebook, view some photos, and maybe post a selfie to Instagram. It's designed for your computer illiterate little sister, for grandpas who don't know how to use that computer dofangle thingy, and for mom who just wants to look up apple pie recipes. It's simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily. That is what Metro is. It is the antithesis of a power user.'"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by gargoyle on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:43AM

    by gargoyle (1791) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:43AM (#2286)

    I go swimming each day, this morning while getting changed after the swim I overheard a conversation between a middle aged woman and an older women.

    The older woman wanted to buy a new PC for home and the middle aged woman started to warn her not to go with Windows 8 and actually provided a fairly accurate laymens description of what is wrong with Win8. She was clearly not in an IT type job based on the terms she was using. I couldn't help but smile

    I suspect that both these women are exactly the sort of persion the article is trying to convince us that Win8 was designed for, and yet word of mouth about how bad the OS is has spread outside of technical groups of people and into the wider population.

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  • (Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:20AM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:20AM (#3075) Journal

    Uhmm you swim, you change in the female locker room (meaning you're either female yourself or the living physical embodiment of some raunchy somewhat comedic pubertal male-oriented Japanese anime), and you post on Slashdot^WSoylentNews. Your post involves two women discussing computers while changing into swimsuits and with a strong bias against Microsoft.

    *Yog-Yogguth's head asplodes from happiness and pleasure*

    There is still hope for this plane of existence, thank you thank you thank you gargoyle :)

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