Well put... I agree that intuitive is the wrong word and that familiar is more apt.If you allow a little sidebar:It’s immediately obvious if your background is hardware
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I would count that as unintuitive.
The word "intuitive" is very unhelpful when talking about user interfaces. It sounds like "intuitive" is an absolute, objective thing. But pretty much nothing in software UIs is "intuitive".
Try saying "familiar" instead and you'll get closer to the truth – and then that also begets the question "familiar to whom?" People with a hardware background? That's not exactly "intuition", is it? It's learned behaviour for a specific group of people who may not have been the main target group when the feature was designed. For users without expectations based on such a background, the implementation may well be better.
Statistics: Posted by pdxindy — Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:29 am