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Yes, and not just that. A lot of management boils down to aligning teams' responsibilities with their interfaces, and committing the teams to a baseline of usability of their interfaces. See also Stevey's Platforms Rant (https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611)

Indeed. A way to communicate, reduce mistakes, all the while; hopefully; without restricting the task at hand.

Basically, the opposite of a modern microwave.

Sounds like you've got a personal vendetta against modern microwaves.

If they have something against modern microwaves, I hope they never discover office printer interfaces. It may be all too much.

I have a personal vendetta against almost all modern UIs, coffee machine and printers included, like the sibling comment joked about.

The lag on key/touch presses. The stupid and overcomplication of the controls. The simple made difficult. The hard made impossible.

Nailed it right here. Lots of people don't think of it this way though :)

also they aren't mutually exclusive lol