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Now think about a bad software product that you might encounter briefly or you are forced to use: a poorly designed electronic kiosk with 1000ms lag on every interaction, or a hospital electronic system. I think there's a high chance that the people building them rarely use them, or not at all.

looks at Adobe Illustrator

picks up the manual for Creature House Expression, a 2003 natural media vector editor just oozing with better and more thoughtful implementations of things Illustrator still barely does, bought by Microsoft and killed

sighs

I once used the phrase 'Enterprise Software' in front of a friend. To explain what I meant I asked "What software do you use at work in the hospital?". They rolled their eyes. Exactly.

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