When that became clearly insufferable--and actually killed people in THERAC-25--we evolved to like two decades of Winforms-based apps.
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So of course the "test missile alert" and "missile alert" options were buried in a dropdown. For 20 years this was state of the art interface design.
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Enterprise development is all about building around this rigid way of conceptualizing work behavior. The inheritance graph here is probably a nightmare.
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The amount of software out in the wild that was (and is still being) built by coders who are only interested in whether their code 'works', is terrifying. Some schools still won't countenance 'forcing' their students to take non-coding aspects of software seriously :/
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My company spent many tens of millions switching our accounting software to one that requires manually inputting codes that look like “ZQRS1X7” to run a report or pull up a funding document. In 2011. It has absurdly bad UX.
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I had never heard of THERAC-25 before, thank you for mentioning it!
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Yea, I have to use one of those most days… urgh
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One of my earliest realizations when I joined a large bank in 1998; the text-based systems were far faster for expert users than the web-based systems. But the learning curve! The lack of feedback to let a user know they made a mistake! Yikes.
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I've been using computers so long I probably don't notice.
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