Re:My Brain Has No Space For Your User Interface
by eric_the_read on Thursday March 13, 2014 @09:43PM
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I wonder how much of that is confirmation bias and/or appeal to authority, though? Not consciously, mind you! But I found that after reading that book, things that previously didn't bother me at all began to annoy the crap out of me, just because I'd read the book, and here was this authority figure telling me they were doing it all wrong.
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Re:My Brain Has No Space For Your User Interface
by jacobolus on Thursday March 13, 2014 @10:06PM
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Well, which part? Clearly reading the book helps someone to be more attuned to interface, and maybe more bothered when interfaces are poorly designed. (In the same way that learning about typography can lead to being bothered by all the crappy typesetting in the world, or learning about statistics can lead to being bothered by all the horrible statistical analyses in academic papers and news articles. Etc.)
But even before reading the book I observed people running into trouble with household objects all the time, found great frustration in some of their designs, and was constantly puzzled by the many features on appliances and gizmos that no one ever seemed to use.
The book just gives a nice framework for thinking about such problems, and a great set of concrete examples.