2000/04/26

I really, really don’t want to say that users are coconuts. They’re not. But if you design your program for the, um, challenged users, everyone will find them easier to use.

Today, I talk about users and reading. You see, users don’t like to read. Give them a lot of words, and they will happily ignore them.

Read Chapter 6 of UI for Programmers for more!

About the author.

In 2000 I co-founded Fog Creek Software, where we created lots of cool things like the FogBugz bug tracker, Trello, and Glitch. I also worked with Jeff Atwood to create Stack Overflow and served as CEO of Stack Overflow from 2010-2019. Today I serve as the chairman of the board for Stack Overflow, Glitch, and HASH.