Re:Settings are not a design failure
by thfuran on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:09PM
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And you can't presume that a majority of people were able to find it rather than just giving up.
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Agreed, which is why user studies are (or should still be) a thing. You can't just add telemetry and hope A/B testing will surface the real struggles people have with your products. Likewise, you can't remove the 1% case of "restore backup after critical failure" feature because it's used rarely. It'd be like removing seatbelts from cars or fire extinguishers from kitchens.