User habits and design

When using new products, users learn all the time, they always want to complete the task with the least cost.

Luke recently observed that when Apple was designing products across the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18022.html "> platform, it did not pay attention to reducing the user's learning burden, and the designer neglected the importance of muscle memory.

Muscle memory refers to the repetitive muscle games that make a process into an unconscious state, and once we frequently use some kind of operation to accomplish a task, and then perform the task, the body will enter the inertia state, without the need for additional thinking can be easily completed.

For example, the Windows window's Close button, always in the upper right corner, indicating that the symbol is red "X", and then to the major browser window, also used this design, a variety of web applications, such as QQ, MSN Close the window, the same, this is in line with the user's mental model.

For mail, new mail is the most commonly used feature, you can switch users to the mail writing interface, on the Mac, Iphone, ipad access to mail, you will find:

MAC OS X: The new Mail icon is in the middle

Iphone: New mail icon in lower right corner

Ipad: New mail icon in upper right corner

The problem has arisen!

This different position design makes it difficult for users to use muscle memory, develop habits, the use of the iphone users, when using the ipad, always can not help the hand to the lower right corner, looking for new mail features.

Of course, the smartphone, flat-panel devices, computers, because of their use of scenes, equipment limitations, the corresponding core function points of the design will also be different, Luke is just an example to tell us, do product design, to respect the user's existing operating habits, to help users more efficient completion of tasks, Instead of thinking about it all the time:

Why is that damn button always running on the screen?

The golden rule: Don't make me think!

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