"Friendly" User Interfaces
Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 02:07
in Mathematics & Economics
It’s long been a peeve of mine that some computer programs are programmed to try to sound friendly, cheerful, or just colloquial. It seems out of place to me, forced, overly artificial. I don’t mean that I want all the output from computers to sound like the stilted science-fiction stuff, saying “affirmative” instead of “yes”, and the like. But neither do I ever want to see (or hear) things like “Oops!”, “Hurray!”, nor even “I’m sorry,” coming from my laptop, mobile phone, car, or washing machine.Some examples:It’s common when you’ve finished installing new software on your computer for the installation package to wrap up with a message like, “Congratulations! read more