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Scott Stevenson spricht über UI Design. Seine Feststellung: Mitreisendes UI Design ist oftmals eine sehr emotionale und nicht unbedingt logische Angelenheit.
“Usability tests and theories about interaction are tools. Very useful tools, but still just tools not purposes onto themselves. The real goal is user satisfaction, and some of that is really illogical and messy. “
“Frankly, drag-and-drop is not all that efficient, and it’s pretty clumsy. It requires carefully lining things up. Yet a lot of people prefer it because the experience feels much more direct, and is therefore more satisfying. That’s my theory, anyway.”
“So if you’re willing to at least temporarily believe user interface is primarily about user satisfaction, we need to talk about staleness. If users see the same interface same graphics, same interactions, same metaphors” for many years, the feeling of joy will begin to degrade. People experience this to varying degrees, but it seems to me that the typical mainstream user is more affected by this than the average software developer. “
“If Leopard shipped and it looked essentially the same as Tiger, I think most non-programmers would pass it by. At first glance in screenshots and the back of the box, potential buyers would not see any signs of change, and therefore would not see any hope of new experiences which justify the cost. This would do a great disservice to the mountain of improvements in the underlying system.”