Comment on Learned Blankness

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:23:38 GMT

My intuition is mostly the opposite, specifically that "bad with computers" people often treat applications like some gigantic, arbitrary natural system with lots of rules to memorize, instead of artifacts created by people who are often trying to communicate function and purpose through every orifice in the interface.

It only makes sense to ask the what the words in the menus actually mean if you assume they are the product of some person who is using them as a communication channel.

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