Bryan said: "By and large I think most people 'make do' with what they have, and only really demand things when they're physically painful, EXTREMELY annoying or offend our values."
Great point. In a former life I was a police and court reporter for newspapers, and I learned some interesting things there. Do you know what the prevailing standard is for justifying installation of a traffic light at an intersection? ... (wait for it) ... The number of *fatal* accidents at that intersection. Not good design, not good planning, but political pragmatism fueled by a public outcry. Tangential, but it's an important point about human psychology. Change in itself is so painful for people that it usually occurs only after our circumstances have passed significantly beyond our pain threshold. Then there's "The Stockholm Syndrome" ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome ... in which the captive becomes dependent upon and even enamored of the captor (in this case, a dysfunctional interface). It's all very sick -- and, sadly, predictable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24918 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
