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The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. I really wish tech companies would stop designing apps for t
by weare138 3y ago
The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application.
I really wish tech companies would stop designing apps for this mythical moron user who's apparently seeing a software application for the first time ever. Everyone knows how to use these apps. Think about it, kids can figure it out.
Modern UIs have become so oversimplified that they're counter-intuitive to average users and useless to power users. When you try too hard to make an app for everyone you just end up with an app the doesn't work for anyone.
- szundi 3y agoThis
- maxbond 3y agoI call this "usability nihilism," as an allusion to therapeutic nihilism - the idea, not that the user shouldn't be made to think unnecessarily, but that in fact they are not capable of it. That the user cannot be empowered or trusted to learn by experiment. In short, that usability is impossible.