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  • Years later, when I got to college, I learned about an important theory of psychology called Learned Helplessness, developed by Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman. This theory, backed up by years of research, is that a great deal of depression grows out of a feeling of helplessness: the feeling that you cannot control your environment.

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    Let's pause for a minute and go back to computers. 

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  • • A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.
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  • Learned Helplessness, developed by Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman. This theory, backed up by years of research, is that a great deal of depression grows out of a feeling of helplessness: the feeling that you cannot control your environment.
  • The more you feel that you can control your environment, and that the things you do are actually working, the happier you are
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  • • The point is, does the UI respond to the user in the way in which the user expected it to respond?
    • UI is important because it affects the feelings, the emotions, and the mood of your users. If the UI is wrong and the user feels like they can't control your software, they literally won't be happy and they'll blame it on your software. If the UI is smart and things work the way the user expected them to work, they will be cheerful as they manage to accomplish small goals.
    • A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.
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  • Programmers see themselves as analytic, logical thinkers: strong at reasoning, weak on artistic judgment.
  • The more you feel that you can control your environment, and that the things you do are actually working, the happier you are
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  • • When you're thinking about user interfaces, it helps to keep imaginary users in mind. The more realistic the imaginary user is, the better you'll do thinking about how they use your product.
    • When he tries to control things, they don't respond. The space bar and the Alt+F4 key "don't work" -- for all intents and purposes, it's as if those keys were broken. The window disobeys him when he tries to make it wider, playing a little prank where it just moves over instead of widening. Bad window. Even if the whole thing is subconscious, the subtle feeling of being out of control translates into helplessness, which translates into unhappiness.
    • does the UI respond to the user in the way in which the user expected it to respond? If it didn't, the user is going to feel helpless and out of control
    • UI is important because it affects the feelings, the emotions, and the mood of your users. If the UI is wrong and the user feels like they can't control your software, they literally won't be happy and they'll blame it on your software.
    • To make people happy, you have to let them feel like they are in control of their environment. To do this, you need to correctly interpret their actions. The interface needs to behave in the way they are expecting it to behave. 
    • A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.
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