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One would think they'll that with all the tools we have at our disposal to save time, that the average person would be far more efficient and able to focus on the task at hand. But the opposite appears to be true, at least from my perspective. The various services we have to organize our lives seem to each have their own way of doing things and one is constantly switching between one thing or another. That in itself is inherently inefficient and to further add to the recipe of chaos the concept of detailed instructions seems to gone out the door in favour of icons and "relationships". So one is faced with the undesirable task of having to figure out the designer's perceptions.--This is where a well written manual the most beneficial. Now doing this on occasion or when one has a real mystery to solve is downright fun, but on the other hand when your goal of the day is to achieve something well done this gets to be a real impediment.
I find myself thinking about the thought processes of various modern-day developers. Indeed how well do they know themselves when you come right down to it. Because if you don't know your own motivations and it is hard to know exactly what drives your own designs and creativeness and things can get out of hand and the new application being created ends up being boxed in and more limited than its predecessor. A real world example of this is the new upgraded app which controls my smart lights. It seems to have far less functionality, for example you can no longer dim the lights on a timer for the whole house, you must set each individual room which means more time spent. And day help section is more of a philosophical explanation of why "you" the user will find this new app so wonderful. But as to what slider does what, well one has to spend some time playing around with it. And if one's way of using the app does not coincide with the philosophical instructions then it isn't so wonderful after all.
I just wonder about the mindsets and how people are thinking and indeed about their various thought processes. What will the machines think of us when they finally do "wake up" at the singularity? Just how well do we know our own thinking?
