simple autosuggest because it’s predictable something that could be helpful, but was a direct, brute force method that a human could understand and thus predict. “oh, i know why it gave me that”. it’s not as intrusive or even judgmental. it leaves no room for a tech company to inject their advertisers’ preferences.
dropdown menus that move around in word these were infuriating on two levels
- you didn’t know which ones would appear
- you didn’t know what order they would be in every time you opened a menu, something that could happen hundreds of times in a writing session, you had to reevaluate where the menu items were. even though the algorithm was simple (just a count of the number of times the user clicked on a menu item), the humans can’t remember those numbers, and thus can’t predict them themselves.
predictability is the most important aspect to a nonemotional experience.
search is a ironic conundrum of the ages. it’s nearing a virtual gaslighting, in which our tools are
the unfortunate downside of the artifice of intellect now we’re even in a place during which truth itself is in question.