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by nazgulnarsil 6075 days ago
basically anytime actions are presented without context. for many of the choices presented to you there is no way to logically infer what the system will do based on the information they give you. the design choices are implicit and have to be discovered by the user via rote learning. design choices should be explicit. applications should ask you intuitive questions about how it should handle your data. not a series of drop down boxes and yes or no questions. some third party applications are good about this, OSX and Windows suck at it.