If something is confusing, it's usually the designer's fault, not the user's. One, people usually overrate their own computing skills. For example, I recently began using a mobile phone. I love that I can always pick up a phone or get calls wherever I am. I can't import my contacts and phone numbers from my address book on my computer.
Many new gadgets make part of our lives easier and other parts more difficult.
As I experienced with my new mobile phone, most gadgets are great in some areas, but don't quite do it all. I have a REX PC-card sized organizer and a PalmPilot, but I don't use them as much as I thought I would. After the initial excitement wears off, these electronic gadgets must provide real benefits for users to keep using them. I would rather play or teach tennis than do software design. Although tennis is a social and physical game, logic and patterns are involved, as with software design.