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maxvoltar
@maxvoltar.be

What’s the German word for when you’re a designer and look at a piece of software and just get sad because you see the potential it had?

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Alex McRoberts
@alex.mcroberts.me

Well apparently Google AI search is good (debatable) for suggestions (irony of AI generation here is not lost on me) Murksmelancholie: Melancholy caused by being forced to look at or use a poorly designed product or bad craftsmanship

Alex McRoberts
@alex.mcroberts.me

Substanzlosigkeitserkenntnis: The crushing realization of polished emptiness—when software looks pretty on the surface but completely lacks functional substance underneath.

Alex McRoberts
@alex.mcroberts.me

Softwarepotenzialtrauer: Literally "software potential mourning," meaning the specific grief felt when seeing a feature that could have been great but was ruined by bad execution.