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

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    363·
    11 months ago

    We have been trained to hoard apps and files, while tech companies have failed to provide any intuitive or easy way to organize them. And their solution isn’t to make things more organized or usable. No, our technological overlords have decided that disorganized chaos is fine as long as they can provide an automated search product to sift through the mess.

    Ugh. Who’s the teen writing for Scientific American?

    This same complaint was made back in the oughts about search. “Everyone should just categorize and properly tag documents!”

    Turns out users hate that.

    • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      I’ve actually tried to do that with pictures/art, but none of the tools I have to do so make it easy. The Windows photo viewer from Windows XP, which I can’t seem to get anymore, was actually pretty okay at it.

      But the truth is that even then it required more effort than I was willing to put in, and I was never able to anticipate every tag I would eventually want. If I didn’t feel like tagging something the moment I saved it, it generally never got tagged.

      At this point an AI to do it would be amazing. I have thousands and thousands of pieces of potential character art, but when I want something with specific features it’s not easy to find.

      • Shazbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I don’t blame you. Even in a professional setting tagging is mind numbing and tedious. The only difference is without tagging you might miss an image that can be licensed and the business opportunity that needed it.

        • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          The one that can still be enabled is still not the original version that had the tools I’m thinking of; I’ve tried several guides to re-enable it and it does give me an older photo viewer, but never quite the one I had back in XP.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      I don’t even organize my physical mail. Ain’t no way I’m organizing my email.

      The time spent manually organizing things was low hanging fruitb to automate away. I’m glad it’s mostly unnecessary now. The need to manually organize apps is the single biggest reason I never switched to iOS. (The search feature really doesn’t eliminate that need, IMO, whereas on Android it’s never been important).

    • cholesterol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      11 months ago

      Ugh. Who’s the teen writing for Scientific American?

      Note that it’s an opinion piece. It simply expresses the opinion of the author.