{"id":1506,"date":"2018-04-03T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notes.nicedream.net\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2024-10-03T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:44:17","slug":"best-use-of-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/best-use-of-conventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Use of Conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Krug on conventions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited\">Don&#8217;t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One problem with conventions, though: Designers are often reluctant to take advantage of them. Faced with the prospect of following a convention, there\u2019s a great temptation for designers to try reinventing the wheel instead, largely because they feel (not incorrectly) that they\u2019ve been hired to do something new and different, not the same old thing. Not to mention the fact that praise from peers, awards, and high-profile job offers are rarely based on criteria like \u201cbest use of conventions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Krug on conventions in Don&#8217;t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability: One problem with conventions, though: Designers are often reluctant to take advantage of them. Faced with the prospect of following a convention, there\u2019s a great temptation for designers to try reinventing the wheel instead, largely because they feel&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/best-use-of-conventions\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}