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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]

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179 points joelkesler | 1 comments | 13 Dec 25 18:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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scottjenson ◴[13 Dec 25 04:40 UTC] No.46252036[source]▶
I've given dozens of talks, but this one seems to have struck a chord, as it's my most popular video in quite a while. It's got over 14k views in less than a day.

I'm excited so many people are interested in desktop UX!

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1. p_ing ◴[14 Dec 25 17:07 UTC] No.46264624[source]▶
This was a great talk! I'm interested to hear what you believe the desktop UX ('human interface') issues to actually be, today.

Rightly your talk was not about specific issues or specific solutions, but as a desktop user (macOS primarily, Windows secondary but historically, and KDE a distant third), beyond the mishmash of different UIs, i.e. Windows 11 presenting Windows 3.x or just outright dumb decisions such as transparent everything, what is it that you want to solve for people on the desktop space to make them more /productive/ than they currently are? Especially now that our primary vehicle to information creation and sharing is not the desktop, but the web browser alone?