Are UI developers all left handed?

[Phillip Susi]

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On 8/8/2012 2:35 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Sadly obvious. If you've not studiously watched people over 50 or
> 80 try to use a computer you should. Then you should be able to
> discover some important realities about UI usability.

I have watched people that age use a computer, and never noticed any
difficulty moving the mouse to the right compared to the left.
Explaining why this would be so and pointing to some evidence of it
would be far more productive than "you just don't understand".

> A natural proclivity on grasping it to send the pointer away from
> most likely targets is unhelpful, and even more so when CTS or
> arthritis makes every mouse movement difficult. According to the
> OP, toward upper right is the natural proclivity of a right-hander,
> while toward upper left is the natural proclivity of a left-hander,
> making natural proclivity helpful to left-handers and detrimental
> to right-handers who use Unity and Gnome Shell. My point is it is
> even more detrimental for those for whom mouse movement is
> difficult.

Again, I have never noticed any natural proclivity for moving to the
right, so some evidence that this is so would be helpful.


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