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Cliff Kuang

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How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

We've demanded it, so much so that what used to come with instruction manuals doesn't come with them anymore because now we're building up this pattern language. of, you know, this should work like this thing, and this is familiar because you've used this other thing, like the instruction manual essentially has gone away.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

We've demanded it, so much so that what used to come with instruction manuals doesn't come with them anymore because now we're building up this pattern language. of, you know, this should work like this thing, and this is familiar because you've used this other thing, like the instruction manual essentially has gone away.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

We've demanded it, so much so that what used to come with instruction manuals doesn't come with them anymore because now we're building up this pattern language. of, you know, this should work like this thing, and this is familiar because you've used this other thing, like the instruction manual essentially has gone away.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

Hi, thanks for having me.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

Hi, thanks for having me.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

Hi, thanks for having me.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

Machines in some way had to work differently than they had worked before because of all the different technology that was coming online to help Americans fight in the in the war. And all that technology coming online with all these new users made people think about technology in a fundamentally different way.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

Machines in some way had to work differently than they had worked before because of all the different technology that was coming online to help Americans fight in the in the war. And all that technology coming online with all these new users made people think about technology in a fundamentally different way.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

Machines in some way had to work differently than they had worked before because of all the different technology that was coming online to help Americans fight in the in the war. And all that technology coming online with all these new users made people think about technology in a fundamentally different way.

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How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

So I guess one of the things that people noticed in World War II is that none of the machines were performing nearly as well as people had promised they would, right? So they would come back with numbers saying the bomb should be this accurate and the plane should be flying at this efficiency rate, etc., etc., etc. And none of those numbers turned out to be happening.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

So I guess one of the things that people noticed in World War II is that none of the machines were performing nearly as well as people had promised they would, right? So they would come back with numbers saying the bomb should be this accurate and the plane should be flying at this efficiency rate, etc., etc., etc. And none of those numbers turned out to be happening.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

So I guess one of the things that people noticed in World War II is that none of the machines were performing nearly as well as people had promised they would, right? So they would come back with numbers saying the bomb should be this accurate and the plane should be flying at this efficiency rate, etc., etc., etc. And none of those numbers turned out to be happening.

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How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

None of those numbers turned out to be true. And so the Army actually, the Air Force, set about figuring out exactly why this was. And it turned out, more often than not, it was that people and machines were not interacting well, right? People did not know how to use the machines in some way. And people didn't have a very good understanding of what was going on.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

None of those numbers turned out to be true. And so the Army actually, the Air Force, set about figuring out exactly why this was. And it turned out, more often than not, it was that people and machines were not interacting well, right? People did not know how to use the machines in some way. And people didn't have a very good understanding of what was going on.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

None of those numbers turned out to be true. And so the Army actually, the Air Force, set about figuring out exactly why this was. And it turned out, more often than not, it was that people and machines were not interacting well, right? People did not know how to use the machines in some way. And people didn't have a very good understanding of what was going on.

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How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

And so this generation of psychologists were essentially tasked to figure it out. And what they realized was that it wasn't so much that the human beings weren't, quote unquote, trained to use the machines well enough, which is what a lot of people thought was the case. It was the machines in some way were impossible to use.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

And so this generation of psychologists were essentially tasked to figure it out. And what they realized was that it wasn't so much that the human beings weren't, quote unquote, trained to use the machines well enough, which is what a lot of people thought was the case. It was the machines in some way were impossible to use.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

And so this generation of psychologists were essentially tasked to figure it out. And what they realized was that it wasn't so much that the human beings weren't, quote unquote, trained to use the machines well enough, which is what a lot of people thought was the case. It was the machines in some way were impossible to use.

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How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

And in one famous instance in World War II, it turned out that there was something almost 500 crashes within a span of 22 months, all caused because the wing flaps and the landing gear in a particular plane, the B-17, were almost identical. So that when people come in to land these planes, they would, for example, hit the wing flaps, meaning to push the landing gear, and end up causing a crash.

Something You Should Know
How Things Became User Friendly & Effective Ways to Change People’s Minds - SYSK Choice

And in one famous instance in World War II, it turned out that there was something almost 500 crashes within a span of 22 months, all caused because the wing flaps and the landing gear in a particular plane, the B-17, were almost identical. So that when people come in to land these planes, they would, for example, hit the wing flaps, meaning to push the landing gear, and end up causing a crash.

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