[IxDA Discuss] the appearance of change

[Michael Tuminello]

Although I'll certainly admit it is somewhat OT, I was thinking of it  
more generally as designing something that appears to be a solution  
rather than something that actually is.  Or at least that's how I  
rationalized posting it.  :-)

A good general example of this in software design would be progress  
bars.  Some are in fact accurate but many are fudged to some degree  
or other, and in that case they are just a design element that has  
been produced to elicit the desired response (patience) from the user.

MT



On Jan 1, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Jan Cohen wrote:

> It's an interesting albeit perhaps OT argument, this one about  
> imposing security for the sake of making people feel secure.