pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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minus-squareholgersson@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoCounter point: Nobody knows how to operate printers and scanners because they are not build by people that are tech literate. Give a printer or scanner a proper UI using the design principles that modern apps use and see how easy newer generations pick things up
minus-squarefemboy_link.mp4@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI am convinced that printer companies make their products as esoteric and intimidating to the average person as possible on purpose so that they can sell expensive servicing packages to businesses.
Counter point: Nobody knows how to operate printers and scanners because they are not build by people that are tech literate.
Give a printer or scanner a proper UI using the design principles that modern apps use and see how easy newer generations pick things up
I am convinced that printer companies make their products as esoteric and intimidating to the average person as possible on purpose so that they can sell expensive servicing packages to businesses.