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Re:Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4,... by FireBeyond on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:36PM (#17378434)
> Apple design, by contrast is generally very obvious

Hand an iPhone X to someone who is familiar with other iPhones, but not it.

Watch their first frustrated attempts.

Talk more about obvious design.

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Re:Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4,... by gdubs on Saturday June 23, 2018 @12:19PM (#17381926)
Jeff Raskin has a great essay on why “intuitive” usually means “familiar”, and while we think something like the mouse is intuitive, people were baffled by it when it was first employed. [1]

It’s a good read — one of my favorites on human computer interaction.

1: https://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html

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