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IBM Common User Access

by gjvc on 6/29/25, 10:33 AM with 1 comments

  • by blueflow on 6/29/25, 11:04 AM

      It was a sign of expertise to have learned the UIs of dozens of applications, since a novice user facing a new program would find their existing knowledge of a similar application either of no use or actively a hindrance to understanding as learned behavior might need to be unlearned for the new application.
    
    This is a known thing? And yet we are where we currently are?