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As a UX practitioner with engineering experience, I'm happy to see an article like this, but also a bit disheartened that in 2021 it's still a revelation for ma
by d0gbread 5y ago
As a UX practitioner with engineering experience, I'm happy to see an article like this, but also a bit disheartened that in 2021 it's still a revelation for many that frustration, satisfaction, and cognitive load are key considerations in prioritization in addition to raw efficiency.
- bluGill 5y agoHow can you live? I took two classes in UX in college 20 years ago. I still can't walk into a kitchen without cursing the bad UX of the stove.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoAre you implying that all stoves in all kitchens are bad? At least that's what it looks like you are saying.
- bluGill 5y agoAlmost without exception. There is no way of knowing without careful study which burner will turn on when you turn a knob. (generally you know the side, but not front/back) Every time I move I need to figure out a different stove, and so I'm often turning on the wrong burner because I have the wrong habit. Most people think "opps, I'm stupid again" when that happens, but I have enough UX background to know that the real problem is the UX is terrible.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoHow often do you use a different hob? As long as it is not awkward surely once you have used it a couple of times you have it in muscle memory. Over the last 30 years I have only had two hobs so it hasn't been a big burden to learn a the correspondence between the five burners and the knobs on a new one.
- sapsan 5y agoSounds similar to the consequences of reading Don Norman's «The Design of Everyday Things»...
- bluGill 5y agoThat book was part of my classes