Re:Copying is the way design works
by robertlagrant on Monday July 22, 2024 @06:28PM
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Right. "Intuitive" mostly means "I have seen this elsewhere."
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Re:Copying is the way design works
by rachofsunshine on Monday July 22, 2024 @06:51PM
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As a concrete example, the idea of a mouse was once counterintuitive to users because they'd never seen one before.
Windows included Solitaire with the OS in part to introduce ideas like "click" or "click and drag" to users that were unfamiliar with GUIs, by linking them to physical concepts users did understand ("oh, I have a physical card, I can grab it and move it around, that makes sense!").
Wow that’s cool. I remember my dad was addicted to solitaire lol
He was playing the tutorial all along.
Re:Copying is the way design works
by robinsonb5 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:53AM
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> was once...
...and is rapidly becoming so again, hence modern UIs treating it as a second-class citizen.