Sometimes the best way to use a UI is doing it worse: pronouncing addresses wrong for voice recognition
csvoss · x · 2026-11-11
csvoss coins a need for a word describing when the best way to interact with a UI is deliberately doing something worse — like painstakingly pronouncing your destination in an overwrought, incorrect way just to get a car's speech recognition to understand you.
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