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Design over function

If they would see beyond their own circle of friends and hire someone with varied life experience, the business may actually benefit.

It's the same people who put charging ports under the mouse so that you can't use it while it is charging. Otherwise the consumers could choose to have it always plugged in, which would make it look like an "ordinary" mouse, and the designers can't allow that :-)


I don't have any experience with this, but I know that some phone brands (like Doro) exists for elderly people

https://www.doro.com/en-us/


> I don't have any experience with this, but I know that some phone brands (like Doro) exists for elderly people

> https://www.doro.com/en-us/

They don't actually seem to list any phones on their site, but some image search brought up a phone with big buttons to call a few specific contacts.

https://www.hifi.lu/en/p/51004198-gsm-780x-4g-white


There are some cases where you actually need physical controls.

One example is card payment terminals. Vision impaired users don't know where the buttons are for entering the pin code. On a phone they could allow the phone to read out numbers, but you don't want your pin numbers to be read out loud in a public space.


Once again, VoiceOver + Apple Pay blows them all out of the water. No secret numbers need to be read out loud, including your phone passcode if you use Face ID. And even if you don’t have Face ID set up, earbuds can be used.

There’s so much misunderstanding of what it’s like to be vision impaired here and what solutions are available for common tasks.


I feel that is too complicated. The most simplest explanation is usually the right one. I think we live on an earth with actual history. Note that this does not necessarily mean that we are not living in a simulation, as history itself can be simulated.

If we are indeed in a simulation, I feel there are too many details to be "designed" by a being. There are too many facts that are connected and unless they fix the "bugs" as they appear and reboot the simulation constantly, I don't think it is designed. Otherwise we would have noticed the glitches by now.

If we are in a simulation, it has probably been generated by a computer following a set of rules. Maybe it ran a simplified version to evolve millions of possible earths, and then we are living in the version they selected for the final simulation? In that case all the facts would align and it could potentially be harder to noticed the glitches.

I don't think we are living in a simulation because bugs are hard to avoid, even with close to "infinite" computing power. With great power comes great possibilities for bugs

Perhaps we are in fact living in one of the simplified simulations and will be turned off at any second after I have finished this senten


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