After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

  • whofearsthenight@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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…

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      1 year ago

      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.