“Make that process dead simple"
These were the words written giving advice on how to make entice the baby boomer generation into giving feedback or criticisms on blogs.
I think the quote should apply to everything that is related to technology. I’ve mentioned this somewhere else but I feel purpose of technology is to make is to make our lives easier and increase our efficiency in what we do. Sure I could was a load of dishes in twenty minutes but I could load the washer in 2 and spend the other 18 minutes doing something else.
I’m twenty seven and therefore not a baby boomer but if a program crashes on me after several attempts, I give up and find another way to solve the problem at hand. A perfrect example would be the latest version of Windows Movie Maker vs. imovie from 3 years ago. I look at WMM and don’t even know where to begin. That plus the fact that everytime I’ve attempted to use it this little box shows and keeps flooding my computer screen until it crashes. When I look at imovie it makes sense, all I have to do is click and drag and everything just seems to magically work.
In order for the general public to be using technology to it’s greatest extent, it needs to be easy-to-use and affordable.
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I think you make a good point but to some extent it's also what you get used. I've used Windows MovieMaker often and I am totally intimidated by Mac's. I wouldn't even know what to do with iMovie. So, for me WMM is the easier option because I already know how to do it. My point is that "simple" is always going to be in the perspective of the user and their own experience.
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