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> Rather what is considered good UI and ease of use is sub-optimal for people who understand tech The widespread love of the Mac and OS X among techies on HN s
by ThrowawayR2 8y ago
> Rather what is considered good UI and ease of use is sub-optimal for people who understand tech
The widespread love of the Mac and OS X among techies on HN says otherwise.
- kazinator 8y agoTrue, and that includes me. My favorite thing to say about bad UI is "those designers should spend two weeks using a Mac from 1985". :)
- mrob 8y agoIt says nothing about whether it's optimal or not. You can't easily evaluate how good a UI is for expert users until you're an expert yourself, and once you've made that effort, will you really want to abandon all that hard-won skill to learn another system? I think many people use sub-optimal UIs because the short-term cost of learning a different one, which might not even be better, is too high.