How usability is natural for the world.
How much the concept of usability is peculiar to the world around? Is it artificially created, as a result of human activity, or is nature also guided by the principles of convenience?
To understand this, you need to consider the typical scenarios of man, and the most natural of them. Separately, I note that most of the processes in a person are automated in general, for example, we should not think about the required amount of gastric juice for digesting food, right? Those. we study only the processes in which our consciousness participates and mark the convenience of automation to ourselves.
Among other things, you should immediately determine what usability is, because disputes are mainly born because of the difference in definitions. Simplify it to "ease of use."
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The sample may not be representative, but further discussion should resolve the issue.
So, on examples:
1. Collecting food
Quite a controversial point: it is convenient to collect some fruits / vegetables, others require physical training (get a coconut) and I will not say that it is convenient to climb on bare palm trees, and if you go down, you will burn your hands.
If you want meat, you need to make a weapon, catch the beast, kill it, and heat treat it on fire.
If we assume that you can live on vegetables, fruits, mushrooms and water from a river, the collection of food is quite usable - hands (in particular, fingers) are adapted to collect such things.
2. Eating
It's all very usable: hands, teeth, saliva. Food to put in your mouth and chew is basically not difficult and quite convenient. Large pieces can be torn by hands. Again, if without meat.
3. Sex
If you do not consider the issues of courtship, the process itself is quite convenient. Those. invented and lubrication and a certain form, i.e. like everything is usable here?
4. Raising offspring
Basic things are transmitted through instincts, again the process automation. The experience of generations is passed on by learning. Not the most convenient process, although it is possible that the children were previously trained without being distracted by computers and cartoons.
5. Sleep
Sleep allows you to quickly recover strength, the transition to a state of sleep is quite convenient. Especially in the dream that was in primitive people - he ran for the whole day and sleep without back legs.
AND?
As a result, I can assume that usability is inherent in us and the surrounding world by nature itself. But this can only be said about the minimum set of things necessary for survival. Any delights (meat, fire, coconuts) already require effort and non-standard logic for those times.
I believe that the approach is justified in building interfaces: we only display the most necessary things on the first screens, something that the masses demand. All the rest should be hidden on secondary pages, because nature itself suggests it.
To understand this, you need to consider the typical scenarios of man, and the most natural of them. Separately, I note that most of the processes in a person are automated in general, for example, we should not think about the required amount of gastric juice for digesting food, right? Those. we study only the processes in which our consciousness participates and mark the convenience of automation to ourselves.
Among other things, you should immediately determine what usability is, because disputes are mainly born because of the difference in definitions. Simplify it to "ease of use."
')
The sample may not be representative, but further discussion should resolve the issue.
So, on examples:
1. Collecting food
Quite a controversial point: it is convenient to collect some fruits / vegetables, others require physical training (get a coconut) and I will not say that it is convenient to climb on bare palm trees, and if you go down, you will burn your hands.
If you want meat, you need to make a weapon, catch the beast, kill it, and heat treat it on fire.
If we assume that you can live on vegetables, fruits, mushrooms and water from a river, the collection of food is quite usable - hands (in particular, fingers) are adapted to collect such things.
2. Eating
It's all very usable: hands, teeth, saliva. Food to put in your mouth and chew is basically not difficult and quite convenient. Large pieces can be torn by hands. Again, if without meat.
3. Sex
If you do not consider the issues of courtship, the process itself is quite convenient. Those. invented and lubrication and a certain form, i.e. like everything is usable here?
4. Raising offspring
Basic things are transmitted through instincts, again the process automation. The experience of generations is passed on by learning. Not the most convenient process, although it is possible that the children were previously trained without being distracted by computers and cartoons.
5. Sleep
Sleep allows you to quickly recover strength, the transition to a state of sleep is quite convenient. Especially in the dream that was in primitive people - he ran for the whole day and sleep without back legs.
AND?
As a result, I can assume that usability is inherent in us and the surrounding world by nature itself. But this can only be said about the minimum set of things necessary for survival. Any delights (meat, fire, coconuts) already require effort and non-standard logic for those times.
I believe that the approach is justified in building interfaces: we only display the most necessary things on the first screens, something that the masses demand. All the rest should be hidden on secondary pages, because nature itself suggests it.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/14595/
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