Proposal: Ubuntu is not intuitive

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 03/11/09 15:02:
>...
> This does not at all resemble any computer system in the world of fact,
> such as I know it. I propose that we stop saying that Ubuntu is
> intuitive and leave that kind of sillyness to others. Instead, we should
> say that Ubuntu is a _didactive_ system. The user isn't expected to rely
> on intuition to be able to use the software -- that's not user friendly.
> Instead, the system _teaches_ the user to use itself.
>...

The usual term for this is "learnability".
<http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/term_945.txl>
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html>

There are various techniques for improving learnability. These include
simplicity, consistency, and instruction.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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