Re:Paypal's logo designed to look like a recommendation?
by mgunes on Thursday December 16, 2010 @01:56AM
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Right; and the people in the "What is a browser?" video [1] are not stupid; they're busy, have adapted very well to the extreme compartmentalization of 21st century Westernized life and knowledge, and are largely uninterested in what we know as computing. To invoke a central theme of "Paradox of the Active User" [2]: they're all experts in one field or another, and would make many a hacker here look like someone who doesn't know what something as supposedly generic as a "browser" is in their respective fields. That's far from "stupid".
You could replace a good 80% of the instances of "stupid" with "busy" in design discussions, and you'd end up with better discussions.
The answers to the above questions are, respectively: "A lot," "A huge number" and "Less than 8%, according to a Google survey."