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can't even program a computer these days without becoming a marxist!
Haha, no :). I'm just advocating the same thing you seem to - understanding market incentives as an optimization system, and realizing that its goals are not always aligned with human goals.
After all the criticism here I took a shot of paraphrasing the website in a page length post: https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/ A kind of an opinionated tl;dr
I particularly love what you did with the titles - practical advice, each backed by the appropriate "law", reads nicely and forms a clear picture in my head.
Did anyone else enjoy it for what it was? I get the criticisms, you want the web to be homogenised and free from any form of expression that doesn't present every piece of information in it's most human-machine digestible form, I get it. But it was pretty simple to use and the flair was minimal. I don't understand the pitchforks. There's a few minor annoyances like the back button not working as expected, but they ar…
That's some very thick and obvious rhetoric.
It's a few different fallacies rolled into one, most notably a Straw Man.
You are in essence defining your opponents terms by your own book to shape the argument in a way favorable to you, instead of approaching the criticism from an objective and open-minded perspective that respects the actual position of the critic.
After all the criticism here I took a shot of paraphrasing the website in a page length post: https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/ A kind of an opinionated tl;dr
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For touch that is true, for mouse and pen you still have to consider travel time.
That's the distance
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> Random JavaScript hate is so last year It isn't random. Firstly I think it is mostly directed at the abuse of JS that we see. Secondly while there has always been good reasons to avoid running code in the browser unless there is a good reason. This year added one more with the CPU level bugs that could be exploited through client side JS.
> there has always been good reasons to avoid running code in the browser unless there is a good reason From what I hear from the junior devs, what they're teaching in school these days is that as much of the site as possible should be offloaded to the client device in order to free up server resources. The mindset is that everyone in the world has unlimited massive bandwidth at all times, along with the latest gear;…
Offloading to the client device in order to free up server resources quite often means taking the load your server could handle once and multiplying it millionfold, once per each of your million visitors. In other words, your product just started to burn a million time more electricity than necessary. We should call it by its true name - externalizing costs - with all the negative baggage associated with that phrase.
After all the criticism here I took a shot of paraphrasing the website in a page length post: https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/ A kind of an opinionated tl;dr
For Hick's law, if there are many options and your user knows what they are looking for by name, sort!
There's also CTRL+F in the browser. For the love of all that is holy, don't break it.
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Right, and it's clearly not a reference website, considering it's a random selection of a few UX guidelines.
It looks like an individual's side project to learn a few tools and make something sort of fun and informational. Maybe it's not the immediate perfect solution of all things but so what.
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Even on the desktop site it hides the navigation. It could use an index on the left -- not to mention that the entire law page is so brief that it does not need its own page. Which one of those laws tackle UX bloat and ornament for ornaments sake? The site is pretty, that's true, but it's not made to be a useful source of information, it's made to be pretty above all else. The entire site is a great example of what t…
The irony is that they're perfectly demonstrating the importance of Jakob's law (03): "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."
users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites