Comments on: User laziness = user smartness, and why this is really important. http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/ User Experience Design & Research, written by Harry Brignull Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:48:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: A quick UI review of browser malware warning pages- 90 Percent of Everything http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/comment-page-1/#comment-108545 A quick UI review of browser malware warning pages- 90 Percent of Everything Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:13:38 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-108545 [...] malware warning pages are tricky things to design. Users are a lazy bunch (productively lazy, that is), and they are unlikely to read the text in every single dialog box you put in front of [...] [...] malware warning pages are tricky things to design. Users are a lazy bunch (productively lazy, that is), and they are unlikely to read the text in every single dialog box you put in front of [...]

]]> By: Aassim.nl | User laziness = user smartness, and why this is really important. http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/comment-page-1/#comment-89068 Aassim.nl | User laziness = user smartness, and why this is really important. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:31:31 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-89068 [...] Lees hier het artikel over userlaziness en dat dit gelijk is aan user smartness [...] [...] Lees hier het artikel over userlaziness en dat dit gelijk is aan user smartness [...]

]]> By: James http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/comment-page-1/#comment-78492 James Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:33:40 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-78492 You need to read the Zipf's book, The Theory of Least Effort published in 1940.. From this book we have Zipf's law(Power Law). Theory of Least Effort sounds so much nicer than Laziness. Also the whole theory of Generalised Cost which forms the backbone of transport economics. I have not seen the Theory of Least Effort applied to UCD, or HCI. There are some papers for library systems that mention it. Nielson mentions Zipf's law but does not dig deeper.. It is a beautiful well written book for an academic book. You need to read the Zipf’s book, The Theory of Least Effort published in 1940.. From this book we have Zipf’s law(Power Law). Theory of Least Effort sounds so much nicer than Laziness.

Also the whole theory of Generalised Cost which forms the backbone of transport economics. I have not seen the Theory of Least Effort applied to UCD, or HCI. There are some papers for library systems that mention it. Nielson mentions Zipf’s law but does not dig deeper.. It is a beautiful well written book for an academic book.

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