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0 pointsMattGaiser5y ago0 comments

That is going to look strange and suspicious to anyone who is not a tech worker.

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fock5y ago· 4 in thread

why? The installer could clearly show a picture that this is how it works? People are not that stupid.

It’s not about stupidity. Infact it’ll be the people who are proficient with computers but don’t work in tech that will find this fishy and lose trust over the software. Installation and management UX is a core part of any software.

It’s the same as us programmers driving cars or using kitchen gadgets. If something is out of the ordinary or the UX is difficult, we’ll think it’s fishy and lose a bit of confidence.

jakelazaroff5y ago

I would much rather use a tool that works similarly to most other tools on my computer, rather one that works totally differently but it’s cool because the installer explains it.

tacotacotaco5y ago

"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."

https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/

Jakob Nielson is a founding member of Nielson Norman Group that has studied UX for decades.

https://www.nngroup.com/

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dragonwriter5y ago

This is somewhat sensitive to application posture [0] (sites are, for this purpose, effectively apps, even if they aren’t the kind of site that would be described that way usually.)

A site that is effectively a sovereign app has more freedom to defect from general interaction patterns, whereas one that is more of a transient app has less.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_posture

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