Comments on: User laziness = user smartness, and why this is really important. https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/ User Experience Design, Research & Good Old Fashioned Usability Wed, 01 May 2019 06:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Writing for Cognitive Ease - UX Booth https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-596339 Sun, 01 Jun 2014 20:16:12 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-596339 […] The purpose of this test is to show how easily people rely on their gut instincts rather than work hard at answering the actual question. Where possible, people take shortcuts to reduce the mental effort of making decisions. This doesn’t make them stupid, of course, As Harry Brignull writes, User laziness = user smartness. […]

]]> By: Writing for Cognitive Ease - UX Booth | UX Booth https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-249975 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:31:16 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-249975 […] The purpose of this test is to show how easily people rely on their gut instincts rather than work hard at answering the actual question. Where possible, people take shortcuts to reduce the mental effort of making decisions. This doesn’t make them stupid, of course, As Harry Brignull writes, User laziness = user smartness. […]

]]> By: A quick UI review of browser malware warning pages « OxfordTechnologyVentures https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-142895 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:41:25 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-142895 […] 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: A quick UI review of browser malware warning pages- 90 Percent of Everything https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-108545 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 […]

]]> By: Aassim.nl | User laziness = user smartness, and why this is really important. https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-89068 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 […]

]]> By: James https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/11/20/user-laziness-user-smartness-and-why-this-is-really-important/#comment-78492 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.

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