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I enjoy Clear as an interface which I find productive and rewarding. I see the need to 'learn' Clear is more akin to the desire to learn keyboard and terminal

• alabut 14y ago
  You're right - people get confused between a UI's learnability vs it's usability. Just because you need to ramp up on something initially doesn't mean it's hard to use over time. Plus a new feature can get lost or ignored by people already familiar with an existing interface, so it needs it's own little mini walkthrough just so it'll get noticed. Here's an example of Facebook's mini popups focused on a single new feature: http://cl.ly/image/3a3c1z2f0j21 http://cl.ly/image/3a3c1z2f0j21 I've built wizards of various kinds over the years and I call them "training wheels". The trick is to make it so they can start pedaling on their own relatively quickly, rather than using it as a catch-all where you dump every possible use case.