Also holds for when you have more time vs more information. People under estimate in just how little time some major decisions are made
It's amazing how bad people are at modeling thinking-with-partial-information when they themselves have more to work with/the benefit of hindsight. Reasonable decisions often look stupid or malicious when you have just slightly more information than the person making them
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See also: javascript
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This inability is a large factor in why usability is so hard. The worst UX designers are the ones who think they have to dumb things down simply because (other) people are stupid. The designer almost always has more information than the user they are designing for.
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The converse is that decisions can look like magic when you have just slightly less information than the person making them.
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Reminds me of this : https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsberg-limitations-knowledge/ … (it was passed around recently on tech twitter)
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That was a big thing working at Google was me realizing that everyone is really bright and if a bit of code was a dumpster fire its either cause they had earlier versions of our internal tools, a sooner deadline, had a simpler problem to solve, or some other crazy constraint.
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"The curse of knowledge" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge …
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Any tips on improving this?
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The curse of knowledge
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I’m curious, what made you think of this?
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