Former Microsoft exec explain how a behavioral psychologist utilized Fitts’s law to place the Windows 95 Start button in the bottom-left.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Fitt’s law being true or well known, and explaining why it works doesn’t mean they hired a behavioral psychologist.

    This is like saying an architect hired physicist to explain why arches work; when everyone already knows that they work.

    With the other UIs, like Mac’s next step and dock; they saw the same basic concept and had the ability to see real world feedback from that, no behavioral psychologist needed.