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I'm watching a video on the psychological tricks they use in technology, like "natural scrolling", smooth scrolling, elasticity, and skeleton loaders.
...I think I'm immune to these. They say, for example, skeleton loaders take a little more time but trick your brain in to perceiving less time because there's something there to process in the mean time. This has never worked on me, and I've always perceived that extra time and it angers me.

@hellomiakoda

Can we burn UX/UI to the ground? Circa 1990 I was fine. Now I want to kill people every time I interact even with devices which have no fucking right to have a computer embedded in them.

@angelastella The 90s fucking NAILED it with UI! Stuff had buttons, but it had the number of buttons appropriate for the device.
There were menus! I want to save a file? Huh, a whole menu about what to do with files and OH LOOK, save is right there where it makes sense to be. And EVERYTHING that used files had that menu.
Do you know how many times I reboot my TV in the entirety of 1983 to like 2010? ZERO!

Murat

@hellomiakoda @angelastella Rebooting the TV.. u have one of those extra "smart" TVs I assume?