RE: RE: Building the Hive Community: The Importance of Overcoming the "It's too complicated!" Argument
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RE: Building the Hive Community: The Importance of Overcoming the "It's too complicated!" Argument

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The thing about usability is that it's easy for those who have used something for a really long time to develop a sort of cognitive myopia in which they sincerely believe that what they are creating is "easy to use" because they are familiar with it from using it 24/7/365.

The best example of this is how users of Macintosh computers tell non-users that using a Mac is "intuitive" and easy. That's not exactly true.

When I was learning how to use Macintosh computers when they were still monochrome computers I was trying to figure out how to eject the disk from te computer. On DOS and Windows system there was a command to do that or a menu item available to eject the disk from the computer.

I was wracking my brain for a few minutes until someone saw what I was trying to do. Then that person told me that to eject the disk from the computer, it was just a matter of dragging the icon representing that disk to Trash. How the hell was I supposed to come up with that answer based of the experience I had with other systems?

Something may be easier than something else, but that doesn't mean that in absolute terms it's easy. Even Dogecoin isn't so easy to work with when you're first trying to figure it out.


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