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"People don't read" should be tattooed on the back of every designer's hand. Of course, they won't read it before they design something that requires deep eng
by readthenotes1 3y ago
"People don't read"
should be tattooed on the back of every designer's hand.
Of course, they won't read it before they design something that requires deep engagement through reading.
- educaysean 3y agoJust the designers? Tattoo it on the back of everyone's please
- btilly 3y agoIs there any point in tattooing it on the back of the hands of people who don't read? That said, https://readabilityformulas.com/readability-scoring-system.php https://readabilityformulas.com/readability-scoring-system.p... is a good sanity check. Over half of people can't read text above a grade 8 readability. Worse yet, we aren't conscious of the effort that reading takes. Not until we are struggling. So competent people have little sense of the barriers they create.
- teddyh 3y ago“1. Users don’t have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn’t read it. 2. In fact, users can’t read anything, and if they could, they wouldn’t want to.” — <https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-people-who-have-better-things-to-do-with-their-lives/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...>
- pmontra 3y ago3. And if they do read something, they don't understand what they read, either because it's poorly written or because they start from different assumptions than the ones the writer had in mind.
- _carbyau_ 3y agoI like to think about design as a communication medium. So for most stuff the manual goes straight to the shelf. Unless it is something particularly powerful or complex, I see having to refer to the manual as a failure in UX design. So yeah, I don't want to refer to the manual.
- klyrs 3y agoAlso, a good warning sticker to put on books
- alexchamberlain 3y agoBut who would read the tattoo?