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George Penston  //  A UI designer with too many ideas and too little time. I have an unhealthy amount of knowledge on Adobe and Apple software and video games. You should follow me on twitter here.
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Oct 23 / 8:17am

Coding Horror: Treating User Myopia

The plain fact is users will not read anything you put on the screen.

I've been convinced of this for years. When designing UIs, the first trap is to add supporting text to help the situation. But keep in mind that it may make you feel better about things, it really isn't going to help the user who most likely can't be bothered or is too overwhelmed figuring out what's going on to read anything.

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