[bruh2]

> Windows are a failed analogy as files-and-folders, normal people do not understand them and software for normal people rightfully don't use them

Weird claim regarding files and folders. In my experience, my pretty tech illiterate relatives have a pretty strong grasp for them. Younger people do not, because they only use mobile computers that don't make frequent use of that abstraction.

Why are they a failed analogy? What are normal people doing instead of using them?

[Dalewyn]

>What are normal people doing instead of using them?

They do things very simply.

Most people can not multi task, which means they only ever work with one window at a time. They get immediately confused with multiple windows. Likewise files and folders, most people can't grasp what they can't physically see so the very concept of files and folders inside a computer is pig latin and they just dump everything on their desktop which they can physically see.

A lot of tech nerd sensibilities are based upon very specific assumptions that just don't apply to most people, normal people. Anyone who wants to say anything about human interface design needs to first go out into the real world and see how real, normal people actually use computers.

[andsoitis]

> Likewise files and folders, most people can't grasp what they can't physically see so the very concept of files and folders inside a computer is pig latin and they just dump everything on their desktop which they can physically see.

What do they dump on their desktop? Surely it is files and folders!

[perching_aix]

Do you really think others are "just" not "go[ing] out into the real world and see how real, normal people actually use computer"?

I think we can afford to admit that this is a bit reductive and misrepresentative of the efforts required.

[Dalewyn]

Considering how out of touch techies generally are, I don't think it's an unreasonable stereotype/argument to make.

It's easy to see here too, not the least the infamous DropBox comment.