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“Users want control” is a shoulder shrug
Making the claim “users want control” is the same as saying you don’t know what users want, you don’t know what is good, and you don’t know what their goals are.
Ian Bicking
On the internet I’m a computer programmer. Not on the internet I am also a computer programmer, but I also have a wife and two daughters. I live in Minneapolis, in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood. On the internet I live here; on social media I am active on Mastodon , Blue Sky , a little on Threads .
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Thoughts on Voice Interfaces
I’ve been working on the Consumer Voice Products team in Mozilla for about a year now. My primary project has been Firefox Voice , but our mandate is larger.