The truth about Google's so-called "simplicity"

Op UI Garden een design recensie van Donald Norman aangaande de misvatting dat Google zo helder, simpel, elegant en eenvoudig zou zijn.

Niet volgens Norman:
"...you can only do one thing from their home page: search. Anybody can make a simple-looking interface if the system only does one thing. If you want to do one of the many other things Google is able to do, oops, first you have to figure out how to find it, then you have to figure out which of the many offerings to use, then you have to figure out how to use it. And because all those other things are not on the home page but, instead, are hidden away in various mysterious places, extra clicks and operations are required for even simple tasks – if you can remember how to get to them..."

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