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0 pointstacotacotaco5y ago0 comments

"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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MattGaiser5y ago· 1 in thread

Except this is a file system, so to users it shouldn’t be a site at all.

tacotacotacoOP5y ago

This applies to all interactions. E.g.

"Users spend most of their time _opening_ other _door handles_. This means that users prefer your _door handle_ to work the same way as all the other _door handles_ they already know."

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