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Originally Posted by ghmerrill
If I heard something like that during an interview of a design/development candidate, I think it would be the last thing I'd be hearing from him.  |
Yes, marketing has to lie like a politician with cries of 'Easy!' But we all know really that anything that doesn't require a bit of investigation and learning isn't going to do much. And that the much-bandied word 'Intuitive' merely means 'Similar to the program I'm accustomed to already'.
Icons are what get me. Who decided that the (not terribly intuitive) function 'Filter' was 'intuitively' conveyed by something that looks like the top end of an enema apparatus? (In real life, you 'filter' to take something out. In computing you 'filter' to take everything ELSE out.)
Very often the best signifier for something that has a name is the name itself. Something that has escaped GUI designers since Microsoft imposed their 'Ribbon' on the computing world and menus became
infra dig. Fortunately the programmers mostly retained pop-up labelling as well.
But I digress.