Don’t make me click by Aza Raskin

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8 Aug 2009

My Notes

The best user interaction is no interaction. The user is unaware that they are interacting with the interface in any way. Lots of good examples of not clicking. Also examples of bad design. Worth watching.

Aza made me rethink a pagination example that I had been working on. I may do the switch to an infinite scroll.

Aside: Although this talk was not about Enso, the speaker is its creator. I actually used Enso for a bit. I enjoyed being able to launch a program quickly by a few keystrokes. Unfortunately, I have literally hundreds of programs installed, and to launch a program required too much set up or too many key strokes. It would have been more useful if there was a good way to make the most frequently used programs appear first by default or to have some sort of convenient setup process for all my favorite programs.