Day: February 28, 2009

UX is all about human psychology.  Here are some key truths. People are dillusional optimists.  Whether it’s estimating how much work something will take, stock market speculation, gambling, or any other predictive test, people will always exaggerate their chances of success.  It’s hard-wired into most of us.  How many times have you said, “Just a…

I saw this image on Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood, which borrowed it from Thom Holwerda. on this page.  I redrew the image using Balsamiq. Since, I saw it, I have been internally using this metric for a slew of other topics besides code. American Idol.  For each contestant, I used this metric to measure how…