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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: KRecentFilesAction: hide urls
From:       Matt Rogers <mattr () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-04-13 2:10:51
Message-ID: 934D4DFD-3F34-40BA-A275-A2068030D586 () kde ! org
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On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Thomas Zander wrote:

> On Thursday 12 April 2007 19:10, Matt Rogers wrote:
>>> Hiding information is bad usability.
>>
>> perhaps you can expand on why? since we're not all usability experts,
>> it is not obvious how this is bad usability.
>
> Sorry, I thought this was one of those things that if you say it  
> out loud,
> you go like; right! That makes sense :)
>
> The point here is simple;  if the user needs some information (the
> directory in this case) and there is absolutely no way to find out  
> what
> it is that is bad for the user experience as you leave him  
> guessing. As
> we all know murphy :)
> So; if you want to remove information for the sake of simplicity,  
> realize
> that if a user actually needs that info you just made things worse.  
> Not
> better.
>
> Basic usability idea here is that you should make the essential
> information easy to find and the relevant info possible to look up.

Thanks for explaining. Makes it much easier to see why information  
hiding is bad usability. :)
--
Matt


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