Chewing on the keyboard

Let’s be honest with each other! I am new to this, even if that kind of makes me illiterate in this day and age, to be ignorant to the blog world. I tell myself ‘girl, if you can pass an exam in programming Prolog, by god you should be able to start a blog’. But then again that was more than 10 years ago….the programming exam that is….

I did start a blog once, think it was on Blogspot, were everything was pre defined, nice and tidy…and awful. I promised myself to one day reinvent the concept of blogging. After all, I am an Interaction Designer, I should know how to improve anything. And maybe this is it. Me, being frustrated, that after 10 years; technology has evolved but how we apply it to meet our needs has not. It is disappointing.

I was recomended to use WordPress to create a new blog. It would give me the tools to adapt my blog to fit my needs. The picture is a screen dump of the instructions to install WordPress. It failed, as you might have guess. So I had to go back and use the prefabricated one. Again. And I have been chewing on my keyboard ever since and I even failed to change the home icon. I’m hoping I can do this later, so not to advertise that I, yet again, have a prefabricated blog. And I once knew Prolog.

Have we not come further? Having to find a file, and do this and 50 other steps? What next? Stand on one foot, point to north with my left pinky as I press a three button combination? It’s running on a computer!! Hey programmer! I’m probably ignorant to the subject too but how about creating a press button program that just installs this for me? Since it runs on a expensive computer that has evolved over the last 10 years, why don’t we use that capacity better?

This has happend with the app world. I have an iPhone (and I know that all of those who don’t have one start to put me in that category of Appleoholics who seem to be possessed with anything Apple for no, to you, logical reason at all). And my iPhone has made me a spoiled user. I don’t have to remember anything. Not even a password. It never tells me that I can’t access a program since error #4003something has occured, an error code that maybe the programmer recognizes and I wonder what good it does to then show it to the user. How is he/she going to benefit from this information? Who knows? Maybe the programmer?

This blog is about technology. It is, or will be, about how to adapt to the user. Where we can improve, as creators of technological experiences. What to wish for and hopefully, never ever give up. It is from my point of view, and hopefully you will join me in my journey to create a blog, that does not make me chew on expensive equipment in frustration. Maybe you can share your frustration. We might even solve a problem or two. Together!

In a year or two I’ll probably delete this post and be ashamed of my ignorance. The beauty in that is that maybe my knowledge has evolved by then.

BR,
Annika