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AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices (www.scientificamerican.com)
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After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

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[–] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is a better example. Thanks!