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eppur_se_muova

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3. Exactly ! interface elements should be designed to suit the end user, not the programmers or the software company.
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 12:01 AM
Jan 2025

Last edited Thu Jan 2, 2025, 01:38 AM - Edit history (1)

(Not intended as a harsh criticism of DU4, it's just a general principle).

Forcing one extra keystroke or mouse click on millions of people a day would represent a huge waste, if it could be easily avoided. One reason I have so little tolerance of .... well, Windows, for example.

(BTW, the video I posted is from the nonprofit(?) NN/g, or Norman-Nielsen Group, which specializes in such things as GUI design. The founders are real legends, not only in the UX world, but also for things such as this book:

(which I swear I'm gonna finish reading one of these days, along with Tog On Interface, which I bought back in the Mac OS 6-7 days. Actually I found NN/g by searching for Bruce Tognazzini, who is supposedly a partner, but doesn't show up on any of their Web pages I've looked at so far. Interestingly, the majority of the employees are women -- men write bad interfaces, women clean them up ? Not shocking, if true.)

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