CathedralBorrow·7 anni fa·discussOf course. But "remember where you placed the file in this filesystem hierarchy" isn't the only way to accomplish that.
CathedralBorrow·7 anni fa·discussWhy does the user need to know about file systems and home directories and symbolic links if all they want is to save a file and then find it later?Do you feel the same about cars? Are we dumbing things too much down by making driving as simple as pressing a pedal and moving a steering wheel?
CathedralBorrow·7 anni fa·discussI still laugh whenever I can't remember the exact name of my bittorrent client and Windows has no clue what I'm looking for when I enter "torrent" or "bittorrent".It's called qbittorrent.
CathedralBorrow·7 anni fa·discussIf you want to blame this on some UX/UI designer boogeyman that's fine, but you're heavily misrepresenting UX principles here.