Speaking Interface

Erik D. Kennedy:

Now, my clients weren’t this bad, but look  —  you don’t need to be Bret Victor to understand that if you can only select ONE thing from a list, you need RADIO BUTTONS, not checkboxes. To understand that, you just need to be able to speak interface. And that’s the craziest thing to me. Interface fluency is something anyone can achieve. You don’t need college, you don’t need Lambda school, yadda yadda.

Frankly, you just need the presence of mind to (A) pause every single time you’re confused or frustrated by some app, (B) verbalize what about the interface makes you confused/frustrated/etc., and then (C) figure out how you could avoid that specific snafu in your own designs.

A million times, yes.