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I would much rather use a tool that works similarly to most other tools on my computer, rather one that works totally differently but it’s cool because the inst
by jakelazaroff 5y ago
I would much rather use a tool that works similarly to most other tools on my computer, rather one that works totally differently but it’s cool because the installer explains it.
- tacotacotaco 5y ago"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/ https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/ Jakob Nielson is a founding member of Nielson Norman Group that has studied UX for decades. https://www.nngroup.com/ https://www.nngroup.com/
- MattGaiser 5y agoExcept this is a file system, so to users it shouldn’t be a site at all.
- tacotacotaco 5y agoThis applies to all interactions. E.g. "Users spend most of their time _opening_ other _door handles_. This means that users prefer your _door handle_ to work the same way as all the other _door handles_ they already know."
- dragonwriter 5y agoThis is somewhat sensitive to application posture [0] (sites are, for this purpose, effectively apps, even if they aren’t the kind of site that would be described that way usually.) A site that is effectively a sovereign app has more freedom to defect from general interaction patterns, whereas one that is more of a transient app has less. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_posture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_posture