Lol - well I think "intuitive" is never used correctly - but its consistently incorrect in most literature - I think what people mean is it is "discoverable" - a good design makes you feel comfortable to explore and "discover" how it works, form a mental model, quickly, without necessarily resorting to a manual.
I wouldn't expect people who haven't had experience in end to end apps with real angry users to really understand that blog, but over time they just may, if they have an interest in rounding out their skills (even if they don't want to deal with user interfaces, at least they can have some respect for those with more talent to do struggle with them, and users in general). On May 28, 4:13 am, Dominic Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 May 2009, at 03:26, Mark Hibberd wrote: > > > I have to say I disagree with it, mainly the phrase "intuitive > > well-designed user interface". The idea that a human interacting with > > a piece of plastic and silicon can be intuitive is crazy. > > A long while back, I heard the phrase "the only intuituve user > interface is the nipple". > > Then we had a daughter and I observed first hand how false that > statement is… > > -Dom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
