Monday, 13 August 2012

Creating Unnecessary Difficulty.

It’s been a day of things bugging me. The current one relates to the increasing habit of all things computer-related to use symbols instead of words. The gmail inbox, for example, no longer has buttons that say ‘move to’ ‘delete’ and so on. Now they use symbols, and so every time you want to delete an e-mail, you have to work out yet again that the ‘delete’ button is the one that looks vaguely like a trash can. Why can’t it just say ‘delete?’

I expect there will be more 'things bugging me' to come.

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