alternative, then
11. Productivity UI Development for Laptops and Desktops
Honestly, almost all UI work over the last decade or so has been heading down a screamingly steep downhill luge ride as far as productivity-enhancing design is concerned. In short, the more "modern" the UI, the less you can get done with it, the more confusing it gets for any but the simplest and most pointless uses, and the less efficient it is even for the things you can do once you get used to it enough to actually figure out how to accomplish something.
Oh, yeah . . . and beyond the UI (though I think UI decisions end up dictating a lot of this), applications get more and more prone to favoring gimmicky, useless (or even harmful) "features" over flexible core functionality. Example:
Scriptable? Yeah! You can script button-clicks! No way do you get a comprehensive API or command line interface, though. (Wait . . . really? This stuff is so stupid I couldn't make it up. I've seen that approach to application scripting built into some applications.)
