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"Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know." https://

"Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know." https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law.html https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law.html

mcv 8y ago
By that logic, all websites should look like Facebook.
- athenot 8y ago
  Most platforms already do.
- ntumlin 8y ago
  I'm not sure that's wrong. Look at the (temporary) outrage whenever Facebook does a redesign, even Facebook is allowed to not look like Facebook.
  - stepvhen 8y ago
    FWIW, from what i remember facebook's redesigns were never just a visual thing. they always added and pushed some functionality, made some things much harder to find, or quietly removed things entirely. A similar thing happened when Last.fm did their huge redesign. The new website was all js now, and they quit all support on the forums, messaging, pretty much all the old ways of communication between users. And for me, that was awful, since i was a part of a music collective that communicated primarily on those forums. After that everybody dispersed. So outrage at a redesign is not always unfounded or silly. Web companies tend to hide things in them.
    - Izkata 8y ago
      > they always added and pushed some functionality Most of the outrage I remember was around hiding and removing functionality: Chronological newsfeed, page customizations, network pages, etc
- wild_preference 8y ago
  You must've thought you were being contrary, but websites already do. They have a top navbar. They have sidebars. They have "edit/delete" dropdowns. They feed you content in a scrollable column. Facebook is as vanilla-standard as it gets.
omg_ketchup 8y ago
For a website that's about UX, the actual UX of trying to read each of their articles is actually infuriating. I don't want to scroll. Why isn't the definition next to the name?

mcv 8y ago

By that logic, all websites should look like Facebook.

athenot 8y ago
Most platforms already do.
ntumlin 8y ago
I'm not sure that's wrong. Look at the (temporary) outrage whenever Facebook does a redesign, even Facebook is allowed to not look like Facebook.
- stepvhen 8y ago
  FWIW, from what i remember facebook's redesigns were never just a visual thing. they always added and pushed some functionality, made some things much harder to find, or quietly removed things entirely. A similar thing happened when Last.fm did their huge redesign. The new website was all js now, and they quit all support on the forums, messaging, pretty much all the old ways of communication between users. And for me, that was awful, since i was a part of a music collective that communicated primarily on those forums. After that everybody dispersed. So outrage at a redesign is not always unfounded or silly. Web companies tend to hide things in them.
  - Izkata 8y ago
    > they always added and pushed some functionality Most of the outrage I remember was around hiding and removing functionality: Chronological newsfeed, page customizations, network pages, etc
wild_preference 8y ago
You must've thought you were being contrary, but websites already do. They have a top navbar. They have sidebars. They have "edit/delete" dropdowns. They feed you content in a scrollable column. Facebook is as vanilla-standard as it gets.

omg_ketchup 8y ago

For a website that's about UX, the actual UX of trying to read each of their articles is actually infuriating. I don't want to scroll. Why isn't the definition next to the name?