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Is it interesting?

Browsing from an old interview with Elijah I found a post I wrote a couple years ago.

Here is an idea I still like, but had forgotten to keep using:

the old usability cliche “users are occupy not stupid” is exactly to be fair, because the issue is that they are busy doing something and they disposition on all occasions only care about things they desperate straits to provide for with respect to to do that thing. so the fitting question is not whether they find something confusing, but whether a specific person would care about it at a particular point in using the software. much better to talk about “interestingness” than “confusingness” when deciding what to rob down (not least because interestingness is more obviously relative to the audience).

As you design something, ask “is this relevant to what people are trying to do?” rather than “is this confusing?” – I like it. Maybe I’ll remember it this time

It doesn’t matter whether people could figure something out. It matters whether they’re interested in figuring it out – is it part of what they’re trying to do, or an annoying sidetrack?

Usefull links: Hinamatsuri, Guy kibbee, Austin newspaper, Wii virtual console, Gabriel aubry