New article about usability

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Ignacio.Agullo
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Hello, everybody. I write articles about computing and I just published my fourth article in English on my website. You can find them here:

Articles section: http://www.grafotema.com/agullo/nov/index.en.html

Searching for usability: Seven window managers for Ubuntu (2012) http://www.grafotema.com/agullo/articulos/ubuntu/ubuntu.html

Replicant versus PureOS (2022) http://www.grafotema.com/agullo/articulos/pureos_versus_replicant.html

Replicant versus Android (2022) http://www.grafotema.com/agullo/articulos/replicant_versus_android/replicant_versus_android.html

The rise and fall of usability (2023) http://www.grafotema.com/agullo/articulos/usability/The_rise_and_fall_of_usability.html

As for this new article, The rise and fall of usability, it deals with the following subjects:
-Usability and its history.
-List of usability issues.
-List of usability losses.
-Analysis of usability trends.

The article disregards the matter of the freedom of software, but cares a lot for limitations imposed on users. GNU/Linux is mentioned once, as is Replicant. I considered including GNOME 3 amongst the list of usability losses, but discarded it at the end.

I know the website's design looks old - it is literally over twenty years old. If you find it hard to read the article with this design, you have a link to the PDF version at the beginning.

Kind regards,
Ignacio Agulló.

Sunny Day
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Joined: 01/05/2023

Wow! This is a big WOW!

I've just started reading your articles and had to pause to thank you! I feel lucky to have found your post and links!

For starters, I've been wondering about solutions for mobile for a good while (my phone is off 99% of the time now), but wasn't sure were to look for reliable information that I could trust and be able to put into practice. Thanks to your articles on Replicant I feel like the answer found me :)... Thank you also for writing about it so clearly and for adding a link to install it!

I am curious to read "The rise and fall of usability", will do that next!