The Fast Pencil Fallacy in Software Development

Re:The Fast Pencil Fallacy in Software Development by sukilot on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:26PM (#23692485)

Please, just read Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things instead of a hundred dashed out blog posts.

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Re:The Fast Pencil Fallacy in Software Development by kristianp on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:20AM (#23698003)

What's that book got to do with designing software? Genuine question.

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Re:The Fast Pencil Fallacy in Software Development by pjc50 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:07AM (#23699074)

Software is an everyday thing.

The book also coined the term "affordance", which is still used today in UI discussions. One of the criticisms of flat design is that it removes affordances, in contrast to e.g. the 90s-era Windows 3D buttons which use a consistent visual language to indicate what elements the user can interact with.

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Re:The Fast Pencil Fallacy in Software Development by braythwayt on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:47PM (#23694589)

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