Comments on: The ever-popular interface-palm http://www.dustbury.com/archives/8099 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff Brokaw http://www.dustbury.com/archives/8099/comment-page-1#comment-18053 Jeff Brokaw Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:44:56 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=8099#comment-18053 I especially liked the line "What else do you need? A tiara?" ;-) I especially liked the line “What else do you need? A tiara?” ;-)

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]]> By: fillyjonk http://www.dustbury.com/archives/8099/comment-page-1#comment-18051 fillyjonk Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:05:14 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=8099#comment-18051 I'm sure it's a jargon/familiarity issue, in part. (That is, provided the end-users aren't either genuinely stupid or have so convinced themselves that they are that they freak out when asked to turn the machine on). I'm sure the people who write IRS forms are CONVINCED that their instructions are clear and easy to understand. And I'm sure doctors get frustrated explaining what heredity and hereditary diseases are to people who don't remember their high school biology, if they even had genetics as part of it. And I find myself having to remind myself "Back up, these beginning students don't necessarily know the definition of the five terms you just tossed out in the last three sentences." I’m sure it’s a jargon/familiarity issue, in part. (That is, provided the end-users aren’t either genuinely stupid or have so convinced themselves that they are that they freak out when asked to turn the machine on).

I’m sure the people who write IRS forms are CONVINCED that their instructions are clear and easy to understand. And I’m sure doctors get frustrated explaining what heredity and hereditary diseases are to people who don’t remember their high school biology, if they even had genetics as part of it. And I find myself having to remind myself “Back up, these beginning students don’t necessarily know the definition of the five terms you just tossed out in the last three sentences.”

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