Quantcast
Channel: The Old New Thing
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 24428

re: When the option becomes so second-nature you forget that it's an option

$
0
0

Everybody is conditioned to run "!debugextensionQ -s", when really "!debugextensionQ -r -t" is closer to what most people want.  I guess nobody ever ran "!debugextensionQ -?" to see all the cool options available.

The challenge is to design your software to be discoverable _by busy people_, without nagging the user or adding giant blinky arrows to the UI.  I frequently cringe when I see others using software that I've designed -- that's a difficult challenge!


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 24428

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>