::scr Re: Cognitive Friction

Andy Wardley scr@thegestalt.org
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:31:07 +0000


On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:37:13PM +0000, simon wistow wrote:
> For example - minimize all windows in, err, Windows 9x. You can either
> right click on a spare bit of desktop (or the task bar) and select the
> option. As of later updates there was also a button between the task bar
> and the start button. What many people don't realise is that you can
> also do it by hitting Windows-m.

[...]

> Hmm, not really sure where I'm going with this 

I do.  Or rather, Raskin does.  He says "More than one way to do it" is
bad in the context of user interfaces because it forces you to first
decide how you're going to do it before you can actually do it.

A