Just the fact that you can use the keyboard is brilliant. I teach high school and most of my computing tasks are in lowest-bidder web GUI messes (lousy UX, no hotkeys) and take so much longer than a keyboard interface would. Even taking roll takes a minute or two longer than it used to.

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galaxy_gas 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I teach at a summer camp once that had custom web app for roll such that it displayed one name at a time to call out and to mark it as present you had to type their given name in a box, otherwise click next with empty input for absent

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jtbayly 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Somebody needs to be fired for that sort of UI...

I've probably made that sort of UI without realizing it...

	▲	jjk7 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		False absence, is better than false presence. Especially with kids. The UX is optimizing for accuracy over ease of use, and in this case is likely intentionally difficult to use.

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myaccountonhn 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So much of my work as a software engineer is done in shitty web UIs: trello, github, google gsuite, jira, gmail, calendar.

They are. So. Slow. Each and every one of them. Its awful