✨ Nora Tindall  🪐

ui/ux is a really subtle thing and programmers just don't care. i'll give an example that i found interesting. for a few years in high school i used the colemak keyboard layout. https://twitter.com/Foxsan48/status/1399412463553163264 …

colemak makes a *lot* of things harder, but i didn't expect photoshop to be one of them. it turns out that photoshop's keyboard shortcuts are placed to optimize for left hand on keyboard, right hand on mouse. (that's why "move" is v and not m, for example)

so when you use another keyboard layout, photoshop gets a *lot* less *physically* ergonomic to use.

contrast with the foss competitor to photoshop, which is named after an ableist slur; nobody thought about ergonomics, so its shortcuts are based on a naive mnemonic system they're *never* comfortable to use, *and* they don't respect your muscle memory if you're trying to switch

this is the only part of this thread i'm going to respond to because i recognize that you're basically venting here but. 1. i had to learn photoshop in school. i had to learn and take quizzes on the shortcuts and demonstrate competency. it has never been as easy to use as ...

... Glimpse/etc for me. That's not to say that it's inherently worse, but in fact the opposite. Different software works better for different people, and there are a lot of people who have very idiosyncratic needs in terms of accessibility of software. ...