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1. zatty (zatnosk@manowar.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 18:04:53 UTC zatty

   1) Software usability depends on cultural norms of the user.

   2) Widely used software becomes part of the cultural norms, regardless of usability.

   3) 1+2 means that the usability of a given piece of software can decrease (or increase!), despite the interface not changing in any way.

   4) Without active cultural work, we can get "stuck" in a local maximum of software usability (i.e. better usability is possible, but not with the current cultural norms)

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   • Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette (archivist@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 18:05:47 UTC Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette

     in reply to

     @zatnosk I will put at least one caveat to that: command line interfaces are very good at 2 things:

     - automation (that is what they are made for)
     - usability by blind people

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   • zatty (zatnosk@manowar.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 18:05:49 UTC zatty

     in reply to

     Command Line Interfaces suck, and we can do better, but we can't get there by "just" building better software.