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HELP —A Quick and Easy Guide to Designing Senior-Friendly Technology
It’s time for senior-friendly technology websites
If you follow my writing in Crow’s Feet, you know that most of it deals with serious subjects in a humorous, whimsical, or satirical manner.
But when a young, tech-savvy customer agent from an AI Picture Generator website makes this old lady so frustrated that she cries, it’s time to put aside the satirical pen and get serious.
It is not my intention to bash any company. I’m here to focus on a genuine problem with all tech companies and offer a viable solution.
THE PROBLEM — Someone needs to design a technical website that is Senior-Friendly.
Remember the 1980s when computers were first introduced for home use? Remember the phrase “user-friendly”? The language and usability of the original operating systems were limited and complicated for the ordinary user who was not yet tech-savvy. Everyone begged for programs that were more “user friendly” and the computer engineers delivered operating systems like Windows 95.
From the moment Windows 95 was introduced in 1995, my life with computers became, if not a breeze, at least an easy wind.
Why can’t a computer engineer design 21st-century technical sites that are “senior-friendly?” In this case, I am talking specifically about the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Picture Generator sites that I have been using.
My desire for knowledge about and working in the writing field has not waned over time. If anything, it has increased, but my ability to keep up with technical terminology and workability has decreased exponentially.
I do not understand the terminology and acronyms that website designers and writers take for granted.
Please, someone, write a new AI technology website in a language a senior can understand. Spread the word to your children and grandchildren in the technology field.
I’m not proud of it, but recently I lost my temper with a young tech advisor from an AI picture generator website. It was a site I had been using with ease because I had figured out how to navigate…
