http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/law-4-learn Adam DuVander’s thoughts on keeping things simple. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:03:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/law-4-learn/comment-page-1#comment-2656 Simplicity Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:50:43 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/law-4-learn#comment-2656 [...] 4: Learn: Remove unneeded confusion by [...] [...] 4: Learn: Remove unneeded confusion by [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/law-4-learn/comment-page-1#comment-753 Simplicity Rules » Unopenable Mint Container Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:44:46 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/law-4-learn#comment-753 [...] The fourth law of simplicity states: “Knowledge makes everything simpler.” [...] [...] The fourth law of simplicity states: “Knowledge makes everything simpler.” [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/law-4-learn/comment-page-1#comment-752 Simplicity Rules » Dear Users: Please Change Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:47:58 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/law-4-learn#comment-752 [...] I appreciate his position. It must be difficult to watch millions of his users fall prey to something that can, from his perspective, be so easily avoided. Lack of user education is definitely part of the problem (knowledge makes everything simpler, says the Laws of Simplicity). But he isn’t meeting users in the middle in this post. Even his “simple” solution sounds like a lot of work and is asking users to change their normal patterns: “This all may sound complicated, but there’s a simple way to make sure you NEVER get phished. If you are ever clicking around MySpace and you are asked to login, don’t do it! STOP. Go to the URL bar in your browser, and type in ‘myspace.com’ and then login. If you always type in myspace.com yourself, you’ll be sure that you are on our real login page, and not some fake designed to steal your login credentials.” [...] [...] I appreciate his position. It must be difficult to watch millions of his users fall prey to something that can, from his perspective, be so easily avoided. Lack of user education is definitely part of the problem (knowledge makes everything simpler, says the Laws of Simplicity). But he isn’t meeting users in the middle in this post. Even his “simple” solution sounds like a lot of work and is asking users to change their normal patterns: “This all may sound complicated, but there’s a simple way to make sure you NEVER get phished. If you are ever clicking around MySpace and you are asked to login, don’t do it! STOP. Go to the URL bar in your browser, and type in ‘myspace.com’ and then login. If you always type in myspace.com yourself, you’ll be sure that you are on our real login page, and not some fake designed to steal your login credentials.” [...]

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