Re:The Decline of Usability
by hilbert42 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:40PM
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"Non-obvious features plus buying things second hand just meant you never learned everything your stuff did back before you could find manuals online."
That's the outrageous point. You shouldn't need manuals for operation of ordinary domestic appliances! If you do then you automatically know its design is substandard!
(The only reason you should need a manual is for some info or maintenance function that's not normally associated with
its user-operated functions.)
That's the outrageous point. You shouldn't need manuals for operation of ordinary domestic appliances! If you do then you automatically know its design is substandard!
(The only reason you should need a manual is for some info or maintenance function that's not normally associated with its user-operated functions.)