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Re: Laws of UX

#11

Post by wingerlang »

gkya wrote: post #7

Gkya's law of usefulness of a web page: The usefulness of a web page is a function of the multiplication of the number of laws it cites w/o any context whatsoever and the ratio of the lines of text such page contains in a screenful over how many it could've contained. > The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target. Wat? > The time it takes to make a decision increases with the…

> The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.

If you need to move the cursor far and to a small target, it will take a long time to hone in on it.

The shorter you have to move it, and the larger the target - the easier it is to click.

For example the menu on macOS is always at the top of the screen, making its target HUGE and is therefore basically O(1) to hit.

Re: Laws of UX

#12

Post by rovek »

Lxr wrote: post #8
aserafini wrote: post #6

Ironically the site itself breaks the 3rd listed law, Jakob's law that states "Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know." because it breaks the back button. When navigating to a law and then hitting back the site sends you to the top of the list again. -

My vote for law 11 is “don’t use JavaScript unless it’s absolutely necessary”. That way the browser actually behaves the way you expect.

Seems a broad law considering

* Expectation is subjective and this forum are the minority

* History-jacking done badly is not a reason to throw out a technology

Random JavaScript hate is so last year

Re: Laws of UX

#14

Post by dozzie »

You do realize that this "UX" thing was for decades called "ergonomics" and had a large body of research behind, do you?

Re: Laws of UX

#15

Post by mantas »

tomgp wrote: post #2

Is there a law of UX related to making a user scroll thousands of pixels to read 10 sentences?

Safari Reader mode compatibility should be mandated by law

Re: Laws of UX

#16

Post by sarenrae »

Welcome to this website about UX that took all of 2 seconds to annoy the shit out of me by giving me the impression that I am in some sort of foreground mode that I possibly might want to get out of to access the site...

Re: Laws of UX

#17

Post by iapx88 »

rovek wrote: post #12
Lxr wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My vote for law 11 is “don’t use JavaScript unless it’s absolutely necessary”. That way the browser actually behaves the way you expect.

Seems a broad law considering * Expectation is subjective and this forum are the minority * History-jacking done badly is not a reason to throw out a technology Random JavaScript hate is so last year

> Random JavaScript hate is so last year

It may well be, and with good reason. However, I still encounter people who think that JavaScript is only used for things like onMouseOver and find it difficult to accept that actually, their favourite app or site is entirely powered by JavaScript.

Re: Laws of UX

#19

Post by metafunctor »

Lxr wrote: post #8
aserafini wrote: post #6

Ironically the site itself breaks the 3rd listed law, Jakob's law that states "Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know." because it breaks the back button. When navigating to a law and then hitting back the site sends you to the top of the list again. -

My vote for law 11 is “don’t use JavaScript unless it’s absolutely necessary”. That way the browser actually behaves the way you expect.

Maybe more like “use JavaScript to enhance the experience, not define it”. At least unless you're prepared to actually get it right, which still in 2018, seems to be tricky given the amount of weird sites like this.

This site breaks so many conventions of the web and normal navigation I don't even want to start listing them.

Bad SPA sites are the full page Flash sites of today.

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