Particularly poor choice on Facebook’s redesign of the like/comment element.

Particularly poor choice on Facebook’s redesign of the like/comment element.

Interaction-design.org has great material but their spring out onhover Table of Contents drives me insane.

Interaction-design.org has great material but their spring out onhover Table of Contents drives me insane.

clorman90:

gregmelander:

PROTOTYPE INTERFACES 
What a great idea…to prototype interfaces before you actually make them. :) I gotta check out this tool. via thenextweb

I really want to try this. 

clorman90:

gregmelander:

PROTOTYPE INTERFACES 

What a great idea…to prototype interfaces before you actually make them. :) I gotta check out this tool. via thenextweb

I really want to try this. 

Externalization makes users count on the interface and gives them the feeling (unrightfully so) that the thinking-work is done for them. This seduces them into more shallow cognitive behavior and discourages undertaking cognitive activities aimed at strategy and knowledge construction. Users who internalize information themselves behave more plan-based, invest more effort in cognitive processes, and are more proactive and ready to make inferences. This in turn results in more focus, more direct and economical solutions, better strategies, and better imprinting of knowledge. This knowledge is easier to recall at a future point in time, and is better transferable to transfer situations where the interface, the task, or both are different, and less vulnerable to a severe interruption.

The Dark Side Of Usability