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Designing a good user interface is by no means a simple task, and usability testing can be hard to get right: some users are bolder than others, so what’s intuitive and discoverable to one person can be impenetrable and punishing to another. There’s no simple test that can tell you whether you fucked up.

But if you find yourself having to email your entire user base to explain how your site’s navigation works? Then you fucked up.

Designing a good user interface is by no means a simple task, and usability testing can be hard to get right: some users are bolder than others, so what’s intuitive and discoverable to one person can be impenetrable and punishing to another. There’s no simple test that can tell you whether you fucked up.

But if you find yourself having to email your entire user base to explain how your site’s navigation works? Then you fucked up.

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