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Product design debt versus Technical debt | Andrew Chen (@andrew_chen) on 2009-11-25
- Ultimately, the problem is that if you are trying to learn something about the business, and your technology is meant just to support that experiment, 99% of the time it’s not worth it to do things the “right way.”
- “I want to test this new feature, where should we put it? How about the tabs?”
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- - They’ve also done a lot to actually remove options from the menu and navigation.
Can Design Thinking Solve Your Problems and Make You Happier? | Cannell | Fast Company on 2009-11-19
- Designers and managers start with an intense focus on the human aspect--the real problems their customers face in daily life.
- Designers know that when you see everything in front of you, connections and patterns become more understandable.
The Google Phone Is Coming to Change the Game | Technomix | Fast Company on 2009-11-18
- There's a single thought holding me back from saying it'll be a real iPhone challenger though, and it's important: Design. Google's design is naff, unappealing, uninspired across nearly every one of their online products.
Functioning Form - Smart Defaults in Registration Forms on 2009-11-17
- Smart defaults are selections put in place that provide answers to questions for you. This enables people to complete forms faster.
Slashdot Book Reviews Story | Becoming Agile on 2009-11-16
- The Waterfall Model stressed rigid functional and design specification of the program(s) to be constructed in advance of any code development
- controlled feature addition
How to Hate Scheduling Meetings Less - CBS News on 2009-11-13
- Tungle has a better experience for Outlook users, but TimeBridge is a better business and it has a more well-rounded service.
Satisfaction curve on Flickr - Photo Sharing! on 2009-11-12
Functioning Form - UI11: The Paradox of Choice on 2009-11-12
- Paralysis: so many options that you end up not making a choice
- Selecting a “good enough” option (instead of maximizing) helps cut through the problem of choice.
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- - ay attention to what happens when people do nothing. Defaults can be put in place that serve the interests of most people.
  - people don't know what's good for them. They prefer to have CD players with 21 features to ones with 7. But if they first use the 21 feature player for a while, they will prefer the 7 feature one.
  - As you start adding options, you increase wellbeing. However, you reach a point where the curve flattens out and there are diminishing marginal effects. At a point in the curve, satisfaction drops and you are worse off than when you were neutral. The goal is to find the sweet spot on the curve
The Complexity of Simplicity :: UXmatters on 2009-11-12
- Perceived simplicity can often conflict with actual simplicity of usage.
- Tufte is known for his own criteria for measuring ease of use. He simply counts the number of links on a Web page. The more links, the better the design.
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- - Voila! An expert user. The learning curve in search is steep, but quick.
  - the design team doesn’t make decisions for users that may not be appropriate to certain contexts. This approach, however, doesn’t do much to simplify a product’s design. In fact, it probably has the opposite effect.
  - most people do not customize. Even sites/portals that are designed strictly for customization have 75% of people accepting the defaults. That’s why smart defaults are so important
10 Usability Lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think | UX Booth on 2009-11-09
- a person of average ability or experience can use it for its intended purpose without getting hopelessly frustrated
- Web applications should explain themselves.
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- - As a rule, people don’t like to puzzle over how to do things. If people who build a site don’t care enough to make things obvious it can erode confidence in the site and its publishers.
  - There’s not much of a penalty for guessing wrong.
    Omar Y. on 2009-11-09
    
    … or shouldn't be