Akademy 2022 Call For Papers has been deleted

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Sat Jun 11 05:21:42 BST 2022


On 6/10/22 20:01, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> i'm reminded of DOET:
> https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/books-recommends/#design_of_everyday_things
> 
> A great book about designing for usability. Instead of covering software, it
> covers everyday things like doors, taps or phones, and why or why not they make
> sense. This book is amusing, insightful, and makes a very good read.
> 
> One of the central themes of the book is that users of these tools tend to
> blame themselves for being unable to use the tools easily, while the fault is in fact in the tools, because they lack usability and are designed badly.

+1000, I love that book and it's very relevant here. There's definitely 
something wrong with the tool if someone experienced was able to make 
this kind of mistake with it.

As someone who submitted a talk, I found the input form to be rather 
cumbersome.

Nate


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