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Re:Canon Cat by andrewflnr on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:31PM (#26215314)
Yep. While there are only a few techniques I would use unchanged, the book's philosophy has been very formative. The focus on allowing users to form habits has particularly stuck with me as a principle with important non-obvious results (e.g. no adaptive menus).
Re:Canon Cat by pavlov on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:46PM (#26215432)
It’s also a principle that’s useful for resisting trend-based redesigns in SaaS products where users typically don’t have a choice of staying with the old design.

Most web apps are the polar opposite of Raskin’s principles: highly modal screen-based UIs with low information density (because the designer loves airy padding and big fonts), constantly getting tinkered and unintentionally preventing habit formation.