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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 25
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      One of the problems is that unlike consumer interfaces, which have given rise to the whole specialized profession of UI/UX designer, producer interfaces in the early, fast-evolving stages of a technology are built by the producers themselves, not a specialized separate profession

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 25
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      I'm reading a lot about 17th century science now, and it's amazing the degree which early scientists were also the early instrument makers (Galileo, Huygens). The separation into tool designers vs. producer-users didn't happen till the 1670s or so.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 25
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      Now the thing about the computer as a producer's tool is that it is so powerful and capable, it hasn't stopped evolving rapidly since Day 1, which means it's never plateaued into a zone where a tool-maker class (a producer-side UI/UX class) can take over fully.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 25
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      Ie, the only people who can move this forward are people who use computers for production at the edge of its evolving capabilities. One subset (the command-line purists) has decided not to try. Instead, command line prowess becomes the status thing. Is there a subset trying?

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 25
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      It's not been entirely static. I think version control and package management have been huge conceptual and implemented leaps in production UI/UX thinking. But it's so limited...

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 25
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      And unfortunately it's almost all limited to actual programmers. People who use the computer as a tool for other purposes, like say image manipulation or data analysis without coding... they haven't been able to design/customize/evolve/innovate their own tool environments much

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 25
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      Actually it's worse: it's not even just programmers. Even most experienced programmers aren't deep in enough to do more than say customize emacs or their IDE. The actual evolution is driven by programmers' programmers -- systems programmers.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 25
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      Like Git, arguably the biggest innovation in producer-side UI/UX, is a programmer's shop tool built by the ultimate programmers' programmer, Linus Torvalds. These people use computers for one very narrow kind of production work: making better computers.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 25
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      We need Linus Torvalds level people trying to think up better, broader producer-side systemic UX metaphors. Like a "workshop" or "kitchen" or "lab" metaphor for the computer.

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      Replying to @macodisaes @macodiseas

      I'm thinking Git, not Linux. Git was a big leap over subversion/CVS Engelbart pioneered consumer UXes...

      11:44 AM - 25 Aug 2020
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          Speaking as a professional UX designer, we need institutions prepared to commit to groundbreaking UX work like Englebart did. There is almost no sponsorship for this kind of work at all.

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