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designing UI with the "User is a Dumbass" mindset

helps when i later have to use it myself

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@MightyPork
"Should be usable by both geniuses and dumbasses" is my rule of thumb: anybody should be able to do the simple stuff but the difficulty curve shouldn't ever become Mt Everest.

"User is a dumbass" often is treated as license to remove functionality that requires planning or memory (i.e., the useful stuff).

@enkiv2 in this particular case it's mostly about finding the edge cases you could get into when not really knowing what you're doing

clicking random thing is how i usually learn to use new interface lol

@MightyPork
Fair enough.

I do it too, but always with the assumption that things can be undone. If that assumption is false then there are bigger ramifications to exploration.