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So easy a child can do it? I really think testing a user interface on a child is key to good design.
by thomasreggi 17y ago
So easy a child can do it? I really think testing a user interface on a child is key to good design.
- pclark 17y agoreally? why?
- potatolicious 17y agoThe more "higher level" thought processes required just to operate the basics of your device (e.g., basic navigation, app launching, scrolling, etc) the more mental effort (and thus, frustration and cognitive load) it takes from the user. As an extension to this, the less brain power you have to devote to basic, fundamental interactions with the machine, the more bandwidth you have to dedicate towards other things (e.g., if the calculator is hard to use, you're spending more effort wrangling the calculator instead of solving math problems).
- _delirium 17y agoI'm not sure that always applies. I find myself much more productive on an RPN calculator, once I learned to use it, than on standard calculators, even though the learning curve was higher. I also find that with window managers, tiling WMs were harder to learn, but are a lot better now that I know how to use them.
- thomasreggi 17y agoI really like the calculator example. Imagine a buttonless calculator that just took dictation in plain english and gave the result for really complex equations.
- viraptor 17y agoNot sure I would want one. ".... over two plus three. No move the plus three out of the fraction. The other one. Don't put the fraction plus three in parentheses. Ah... just let me use the keyboard!" Non-trivial math expressions are very hard to dictate.
- thomasreggi 17y agothing is we tend to complicate things unnecessarily when things are simplified down to an instinctual intuitive process the experience becomes more enjoyable.
- tzs 17y ago"So easy a child can do it?" But is it so easy a caveman can do it?
- thomasreggi 17y agoI'm a sucker for good slogans...
- edo 17y agoThe grandmother test is a few gazillion times harder to pass. Beat that one, and you conquer the world!
- thomasreggi 17y agototally thinking about this while I was watching