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After all the criticism here I took a shot of paraphrasing the website in a page length post: https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/ https://yozy.net/
by yoz-y 9y ago
After all the criticism here I took a shot of paraphrasing the website in a page length post: https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/ https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/
A kind of an opinionated tl;dr
- vezycash 9y agoYour interpretation helped me understand most of the laws. I hope mods replaces yours with the original. Thanks.
- maxxxxx 9y agoThat's how it should have been done with decent UX. Simple and easy to read.
- MBCook 9y agoExcellent. Add some examples of good/bad use of each law and you’d have a fantastic resource.
- _lex 9y agoHonestly, just make it into a bullet point list: your reformulation of the ideas is WAY clearer and requires no additional explanations. Maybe add graphical examples if you must, but referring back to the text of the original site actually makes yours worse.
- yoz-y 9y agoThank you. I wanted to keep parts of the original mainly because I have merely interpreted the rules, however the work of compiling them, finding the links and so on was done by the original author(s).
- reaperducer 9y ago68K. Down from 331.
- dsego 9y agoYou don't have the posters.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI love that. It could be simplified further, true, but IMO this is good enough. I particularly love what you did with the titles - practical advice, each backed by the appropriate "law", reads nicely and forms a clear picture in my head.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoFor Hick's law, if there are many options and your user knows what they are looking for by name, sort!
- dsjoerg 9y agoawesome, and nicely done on the "bonus law"!
- HenryBemis 9y agoGreat digest, thank you! Respecting the original poster (and his/her previous not-so-fruitful-reposts the previous days), I like your wording more and I suggest anyone that finds this topic interesting to have a read to your digest.
- airstrike 9y agoDo put leading zeros on numbers that are sorted as text.
- Zanni 9y agoHow many?
- benjaminjackman 9y ago9. Removing features from your product may result in users not being able to achieve some goals Ie removing the leading zero breaks some sorting (Eg .mp3 files on an album where you know the number of tracks and hence how many leading 0s you need)
- jerrre 9y agoThis is a problem of the sorting algorithm
- freehunter 9y agoFar too many sorting algorithms would have 10 come after 1 but before 2. Those programmers need to be flogged until they see the error of their way.
- yoz-y 9y agoMy remark was a jab at the fact that the list on the original website had leading zeros for no reason. I am not talking about naming files but about displaying information to humans. In the case of music, leading zeros on files are useful for sorting. But the music player should not use file names for sorting but track numbers, and display them without leading zeros in the interface.
- ajnin 9y agoI agree with all your interpretations except for #4, I think it's the opposite, if something is ambiguous then you need to add detail to clarify it, and you can present a lot of information at once as long as the representation is consistent. Having lots of detail is not equivalent to being complex.
- da_chicken 9y agoI would agree. I think the real rule #4 is "Take greater care when presenting detailed or complex information. The presentation will often speak louder than the information."
- yoz-y 9y agoFor this one I dig into the linked articles because I think that the “law” itself is not exactly actionable. As a matter of fact it actually concentrated on logo design. The way I interpreted it for interface design is that if you need to present a lot of detail, you need to give it appropriate space. For example if you have a graph with many curves on it, people will be able to see the general trend but they will not be able to make out individual differences.