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This reminds me of an article I read by Dustin Curtis. The flimsy doorknob and the cheap receipt: http://dustincurtis.com/two_stories.html http://dustincurtis
by NathanKP 17y ago
This reminds me of an article I read by Dustin Curtis.
The flimsy doorknob and the cheap receipt:
http://dustincurtis.com/two_stories.html http://dustincurtis.com/two_stories.html
I highly recommend that you read it. Basically it is an article about how presentation can make a positive or negative effect. And Dustin Curtis does a phenomenal job with the presentation of his own website. It is a real joy to read and always makes me aspire to the shear elegance of his typographic layout.
- obxerve 17y agoGreat article; I agree with him wholeheartedly. To those who think that faucets are supposed to be like double-doors, I understand, but usability is not always about idealism or philosophy. Sometimes it's about consistency. If most faucets operate one way, wrongly or rightly, then doing it differently forces the users to do it wrong the first time (or first few times) he/she uses the product. The book that comes to mind is "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug. He did not advocate perpetuating "wrong" convention, but the point is still valid: don't waste the user's time by designing something to behave differently than "expected".