Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard.
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Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
@Daojoan at a startup I worked at a long time ago the founder gave a demo where he was on a call in one ear and had a headset on the other ear with the developer who was real-time fixing things and making sure he went via the happy path.
He slowly hovered over buttons and you’d hear screaming from across the building like “no!!” and then gracefully just move on.
It was kind of impressive in a horrid way.
The industry is so full of lies, damned lies, etc.
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Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
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And then there is SAP 😂 (a good example for overloaded German UIx). And honestly, for professional workers, this can be fine. -
Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
@Daojoan I've never seen a description of Jira so accurate
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Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
@Daojoan uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
this reminds me of microslop teams, does that count -
Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
@Daojoan this is the nicest thing I've ever heard said about B2B software @dahukanna
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@Daojoan
And then there is SAP 😂 (a good example for overloaded German UIx). And honestly, for professional workers, this can be fine. -
Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
@Daojoan Marketing is one of the worst enemies of ergonomic software. They act in direct opposition to the foundational design principle that form follows function.
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Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
From The Australian: "the chilling admission emerging after a cybersecurity expert’s 15-hour interrogation session."
15 effing hours. Christ on a marmite cracker.
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@Daojoan
And then there is SAP 😂 (a good example for overloaded German UIx). And honestly, for professional workers, this can be fine. -
Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
@Daojoan I call this kind of software Playmobil sets
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Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
@Daojoan Gawd yes, every new version of an application seems to show less information, more blank space, and slower.
Like okay I _get_ that whitespace makes for an aesthetically pleasing design, but I'm at _work_ I need my tools to be functional, I genuinely don't care if they're pretty or not.
I have recently been playing with Stylus so I can tweak the CSS on web interfaces. Mostly to fix some apps that are borked in firefox. I wish I could do so in work, but we're locked down from using such things.
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@Daojoan i keep fucking misclicking all over windows 11 because the startbar and its guts are made of fucking flan, and its just jigglywiggly. if i alt tab or close a window and mouse too fast, the entire contents of the fucker sqwoosh over to one side and i click on something else. its like wet, trolly musical chairs with custard desserts
@Viss @Daojoan for work Windows I just set everything to minimal fluff with the start button on the left etc.
The worst enterprise crap for me is Microsoft on mobile with a million layers of passwords, PIN entries and fingerprints. I bought a cheap phone three years ago to keep work separate from personal, and all that bloat is so heavy that I regularly mis-click because it is busy updating the screen while I'm trying to log in.
And now they're sending messages that I must update my Android to a newer version. It's THREE YEARS OLD!
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Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.
@Daojoan Switch to Linux Mint minimal telemetry and free of charge..
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@Daojoan Gawd yes, every new version of an application seems to show less information, more blank space, and slower.
Like okay I _get_ that whitespace makes for an aesthetically pleasing design, but I'm at _work_ I need my tools to be functional, I genuinely don't care if they're pretty or not.
I have recently been playing with Stylus so I can tweak the CSS on web interfaces. Mostly to fix some apps that are borked in firefox. I wish I could do so in work, but we're locked down from using such things.
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@Daojoan uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
this reminds me of microslop teams, does that count@maypop_neocities @Daojoan teams fits this yeah. Some days, it feels like an IRC client for a toddler rather than something for Big Kid Serious Work.
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@maypop_neocities @Daojoan teams fits this yeah. Some days, it feels like an IRC client for a toddler rather than something for Big Kid Serious Work.
@danschnau @Daojoan they have put in effort to actively prevent me from using basic features of my browser such as middle clicking to open in a new tab, text editing is this inconvenient Not Markdown thing where it opens a laggy emoji picker whenever i use parentheses, trying to upload a file takes 1 morbillion clicks to get to the Actual File Picker, if a message fails to send it Just Sits There being confusing forever, etc
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@danschnau @Daojoan they have put in effort to actively prevent me from using basic features of my browser such as middle clicking to open in a new tab, text editing is this inconvenient Not Markdown thing where it opens a laggy emoji picker whenever i use parentheses, trying to upload a file takes 1 morbillion clicks to get to the Actual File Picker, if a message fails to send it Just Sits There being confusing forever, etc
@maypop_neocities @Daojoan yeah it’s really frustrating. The halfway markdown editor is the worst.
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@maypop_neocities @Daojoan yeah it’s really frustrating. The halfway markdown editor is the worst.
@maypop_neocities @Daojoan I feel like it is just way slower than it should be
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@maypop_neocities @Daojoan I feel like it is just way slower than it should be
@danschnau @Daojoan if your context menu needs a loading screen you're doing something horribly wrong
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Volantinaggio contro la guerra
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@jwz Do you remember GLU? It had a perfectly good tesselator, and it turns out to be easy enough to separate from the open source GLU code into being standalone. I've done it once, and the libtess2 above is that too but cleaner than my old attempt. In general it's surprising how much good primitive game/graphics tech you can get by raiding either GLU or the old CPU renderers in Mesa.
Oh, btw, I guess the nanosvg I was using was this minor fork for better units support:
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@afreytes qué bueno.
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I should note that two of my coworkers deserve co-credit for the concept. I shouldn't hog the glory
