Slop.

Don't overlook the fact that when he says "shaped by intent" he's certainly not talking about the user's intent. He's talking about the company's intent to get your money. I know it's popular here to say AI doesn't work at all, and it definitely has big flaws, but I do think it'll be good enough at creating an explosion of exciting new dark patterns to shake people down.

As a frontend developer: please do this. And record yourself doing it and testing it with users.

This is coming from c-suite dumbasses who only use their surface pros to answer emails, join calls, and look at dashboards they don’t understand. No one working in a science-related field would be able to function with a hallucinating robot doing their reporting.

Still amazes me to this day how Microsoft makes the worst fucking user experience related software.

The hours I've spent before fighting with the Microsoft store like- holy shit. It's like they design dog shit on purpose.

Windows peaked with 2000

so this is how Microsoft will claim their increasingly unhinged and terrible UX design choices are, actually, the users fault.

imagine trying to help grandma and grandpa with their computers when the UI changes constantly

Wow... just destroy the world socioeconimic and political infrastructure leading to a borderline extinction level event just to implement shitty AI.

I'm tired, Comrades...

This will bring about a literal Warhammer 40k future where techpriests are required that converse with the machines in order to get them to do what they want.

Can't fucking wait for every interaction with the computer to be some frustrating bullshit where you have to coax an AI into doing what you want it to do instead of clicking 3 icons that never change 3 fucking times and getting a perfectly reproducible result every single time.

Butlerian Jihad time.

There is a good video that briefly talks about the history of the desktop and how it might shape our thoughts around it (rather than us shaping it to our thoughts). Apple and MS locked themselves to this paradigm as well, so they can't radically change it while maintaining backwards compatibility. They need backwards compatibility because of their business practices and the the practices of their customers. This will end up only being the same old desktop analogy but with a natural language interface trying to bridge the gap between that and whatever the user requests. Probably will create a new layer, a superficial interface, that just manipulates the old desktop UI rather than creating something actually new.

Wheels are built on technology from 10000 years ago therefore we should start replacing them with squares.

The UI of a command line interface with the user experience of

Oh yea, good luck with that mate.

Finally! I'm so sick of all this consistency and being aware of where all my files are located for accessibility, I can't wait to have to ask an AI to pull up the program I want to open, and get to engage in a battle of wits as it tells me over and over again that it has opened the program, when it in fact, has not.

And as She looked at the ad that has one fake [x], one close button jumping from the cursor, and the real one being just 1% from transparent, She nodded gleefully: Yeah, right, that's what Windows 12 shall be. Write it down.

I found accessibility-oriented interfaces benefitting not only visually or audibly impared folks, but really everyone. Good UI is informative, predictable, the one you don't even need to look\hear to know where you are and what is next. Fucking proprietary OSes with their everchanging DEs look so stupid after staying on Linux where you can choose it and change it at your will.

more than ever before, they're just saying shit huh

Gemini has an applet that loads an interface, lets you click on it, and as you click through, it makes up new interfaces as you navigate. I wasn't impressed.

this makes no fucking sense. have you ever tried to get google assistant to play a song? You want that to be your entire experience operating a computer?

I've been emulating the Windows 7 simplicity ever since Windows 8 came out, and I will continue to do so by any means necessary.