Bad design: Soylent green is people (not physicians?)

The Dragon Naturally Speaking site has a Solutions section at the bottom of the site that seems to suggest that physicians are not people:

Then again, it does separate business and people, which makes sense, as people are not businesses.

The real problem, of course, is using “people” because no matter which version of Dragon Naturally Speaking is chosen, it’s a pretty safe assumption that it will be used by people rather than cats, robots or giant carnivorous plants.

The solution would be to replace “people” with something that more accurately reflects the product:

Speech recognition — for individuals
Speech recognition — for business
Speech recognition — for medical use

Note that I also changed “physicians” to “medical use” since you kind of need to be in medicine to be a physician and this better aligns with “business” being the other non-individual choice. Note also that the link for Speech recognition – for people actually leads to a page offering Dragon Professional Individual so I’m wondering why I even have to suggest this change in the first place.

Finally, note that there is no way to easily see a list of features to differentiate the many flavors of Dragon Naturally Speaking. What makes Home different than Premium, other than the latter costing $100 more? Premium obviously does more, but to find out what you have to read through a lot of material on the site, where a simple side-by-side comparison of features between versions, like this page showing the differences between Art Rage Lite and Art Rage 5 easily demonstrates what is or isn’t included.

I wonder if Dragon can tell the difference between pastor and pasta?

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