November 2009
2 posts
Coding Horror: Treating User Myopia →
kirindave:
marco:
(via Gruber — I swear we have separate sites, really)
The plain fact is users will not read anything you put on the screen.
This is one of the many reasons why Windows 7 is so mediocre. The interface is smothered with explanatory text. (Was Vista as bad in that regard? I never used it.)
Microsoft’s typical response to bad designs is to add text to explain them. Then,...
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