Dunno where to start. How about the things we have inappropriately standardized on? Like Clear Form buttons, and masked double entry of everything?
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Replying to @shoobe01 @scottjenson
As humanity, we haven’t standardized on what we think matters most, mapping or common use. We as UX/HF guys go with mapping every time. But other industries are explicitly taught different. Electricians are told to put switches in order of use, most-used to the door frame.
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Replying to @shoobe01 @scottjenson
But the electrician, with gut instinct, decides which is most important. And then we as users guess (or, I get out the screwdriver and mess with them all after the electrician leaves).
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Replying to @shoobe01
But it looks like you're getting at a key point: mapping is dependent on situation/users. Compared to the other tweet about OK/Cancel placement, which really should be decided once and for all...
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Replying to @scottjenson
Slacking on meaningfully extending the convo, but totally yes that. I feel that’s mapped as well. Right=forward, and we’re closing in on positive actions to the right, but do not QUITE seem able to decide on that.
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Replying to @shoobe01 @scottjenson
My only real concern here is: left-to-right languages. Do we set up all OSs to empower total flipping or impose our Western sensibilities on the world?
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Replying to @shoobe01 @scottjenson
I'm not sure that the direction of written language should decide this. It may be more important to consider differences in the cultural perception of time and space. "Right is forward, left is backward" is not a universal understanding of time and space.
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And the direction of written language does not make cleanly to that cultures perception of time and space. Left-right and up-down vary separately for language and time-space...
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make = map Stupid autocorrect.
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Replying to @DaveHogue @shoobe01
There should be a standard for this type of correction...
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Name it after me.
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