I have a fetish with horribly designed, outdated back-office apps.
Maybe I can't claim they're horribly designed. That's too
subjective
.
How about instead:
I have a fetish with established back-office apps that people often complain about. I would even guess that they love to complain about these apps. It provides some enjoyment in the same way people love bashing the government or society or capitalism inside dark bars. Pain turned into bitter, cynical pleasure. Pain that comes from someplace real. The nine to fives they work... or even longer!
When I think of these types of applications, I envision:
SAP
and
Microsoft
Outlook
. Well engineered but a pain to use. And I have a fetish with such rather than for since I've never had to use them in a job. Because to have a fetish for you got to be closer to the thing than I am.
To me, I've always marveled at such apps. Just like poor kids in the urban areas look up to rappers who seemingly made it big while smoking weed and popping bottles. I like to envision myself as an engineer looking at examples like SAP and Outlook at applications that made it just writing heavily engineered code.
Your fetish has an explanation abrahamKim , badly designed apps usually have a steeper learning curve and when users eventually become proficient with them strangely they get to like them and become change-averse. 🤷♂️
When i wrote this i was specifically thinking about the average american working person's relationship with outlook. And then i further thought about the undisruptable death star that is
SAP
.
also i thought about my earlier jobs writing back office apps for a university here. I always tried my best to make sure to create something that didn't put a frown in the users' face. Something that felt nice. But never something that was slick.
When i wrote this i was specifically thinking about the average american working person's relationship with outlook. And then i further thought about the undisruptable death star that is
also i thought about my earlier jobs writing back office apps for a university here. I always tried my best to make sure to create something that didn't put a frown in the users' face. Something that felt nice. But never something that was slick.