As the family IT guy its so disappointing how bad of an experience technology is for non-technical people.
I had the distinct pleasure of building educational software for kids full time for a summer while in college (s/o to @WilliamsonMark), and I remember they did weekly/biweekly user testing where a group of toddlers would come in and we'd record them using the software in various states and then adjust accordingly.
Every single session was SHOCKINGLY illuminating. Like, I expected after a number of these I'd empathize more and build better toddler software one-shot right? Hell fucking no. Every user study was so educational. I learned I simply can't enter the mind of a toddler.
Do TV companies, Netflix/Roku/etc. do user studies with elderly people? Do they realize how dogshit and impossible to navigate their interfaces are?
Asking some elderly family members to "sign up and schedule an Uber to pick you up for the airport" is like mission impossible. I thought they were exaggerating, then I tried the experience and holy shit man. Try cold finding, installing, signing up, and scheduling an Uber on a 5 year old iPhone with max font size. Its insane.
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Funny how ewedu is called ewedu everywhere.
Amala is amala everywhere.
Ewa agoyin stays ewa agoyin. They don’t have English names.
So why are you people translating ours?
Why is Ofe Nsala suddenly “white soup”?
Why is Abacha now “African salad”?
Why is Akpụ just “swallow”?
Why is Ofe Onugbu reduced to “bitterleaf soup”?
Ndi Igbo, we need to wake up. This is how identity gets diluted, slowly, casually, until it becomes normal.
Nobody translates noodles, pizza, or burgers to fit another language. Their names remain their names.
So why are ours constantly being simplified, renamed, or stripped down?
You may think it’s harmless, but this is how cultural erasure begins, little by little.
Call our food what it is. If others can keep their names, so can we.
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