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> Jakob’s Law I have a problem with that law. EDIT: TL;DR/Clarification: What matters is what users believe as "intuitive and easily usable" which is not impl
by dathinab 6y ago
> Jakob’s Law
I have a problem with that law.
EDIT: TL;DR/Clarification: What matters is what users believe as "intuitive and easily usable" which is not implied by something being familiar nor by what most other sites or apps do.
People don't want your site to work like other sites at all.
They want your site to work "intuitive and easily usable" for them.
As such they only want your site to behave like other sites if what they perceive as "intuitive and easily usable" was coined bye such "other" sites.
But in reality what user perceive as "intuitive and easily usable" is often largely coined bey the UX patterns around which they "learned" to use tech initially.
Which means what is "intuitive and easily usable" is often displaced in time and depending on your audience might MAJORLY differ from what most other sites you can find today in the internet do!!
A good example is sourcehut (e.g. look at `https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc` https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc`).
It's visually completely different from what most other github like sites do and probably for some people it might look bad.
But for their target audience it's supper appealing as it appeals to what that audience originally learned to be "intuitive and easily usable".
So I would strongly argue that Jakob’s Law is a harmful over simplification of the actual effect which might be ok for some target audiences but literally might brake your business if applied blindly.
- Izkata 6y ago> (e.g. look at `https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc` https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc`). HN doesn't have backticks syntax, so the trailing one is getting inculded as part of the link and 404ing. Fixed link: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc
- dathinab 6y agoThanks for the reminder, total leap of judgement in on my part. I really shouldn't write comments after/just before midnight ;-).