Here is a fresh example of how MICROSOFT and others in the UI/UX world have BETRAYED the Internet user — which is essentially the WHOLE PLANET.
When you sign into #OneDrive on Live dot com, which is Microsoft’s official portal for OneDrive, you are presented with what appears to be a Webpage-based directory that you can navigate naturally with a mouse (don’t bother trying to use a Trackpad). I am using Mozilla Firefox.
What is appearing on this website actually isn’t what’s going on with respect to #UIUX, from my end.
I am attempting to recover deleted files from my Recycle Bin. However, when I select them and then make my way up to the specific area on the screen to recover those files, the webpage or site is too aware. I specifically mean that Microsoft’s site follows the movement of my mouse. What happens next is due to that observational activity, every file I previously selected somehow gets unselected.
I cannot right-click on any one file using my method to recover these files. I will not ever activate OneDrive on my Windows computer again due to right-to-know concerns with my digital data. So, that’s it. I’m highly concerned.
Why did I write I’m concerned? Because I know I’m technologically proficient and I’ve reached a dead end. It is impossible using their UI/UX to recover these online files. Microsoft has designed a website that is so good at tracking me — i.e. using their scripts to actively follow my mouse movements — that they have defeated their honest intentions in genuinely offering up this service to their own customer base.
How is this my fault? Who is in charge here? Why doesn’t Microsoft have technical support or live customer support like other multi-million dollar businesses?
My situation is not unique. It has nothing to do with rebooting my computer or installing needed drivers. This is simply about design.
This is an actual CONUNDRUM. Numerous businesses have been publishing software online and doing this to us for many decades. THEY GET AWAY WITH IT no matter how many times we lodge protests against this online abuse. The abuse that I’m alleging occurs are those of both general #NEGLECT and personal INCOMPETENCE.
There is NO AGREEMENT on modern presentation standards in the American world when it comes to using TypeScript/JavaScript stuff inside webpages. Can we ever collectively move on from this confusing situation? Let’s end the brash human dependence on this one area of technology that actively uses the DOM. I am personally very sick of anything *Script right now! ECMAScript was created in a matter of days as a form of “Band-Aid” for a burgeoning World Wide Web, during the turbulent nineties.
