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Wroblewski: Nothing in design is inherently intuitive; intuition is applied knowledge
“Cause I don't believe there's anything intuitive in the world. Everything stems from an understanding of the world around you and you build up knowledge and then you apply it.”
Wroblewski: Feature usability principles are universal across cultures
“I absolutely think there's cultural stuff that influences how people perceive the world and what they value and how much they value it and all of that. Like that totally plays into adoption of apps and services and things like this. But when you get down to th…”
Wroblewski: Adding visible bottom tabs to Google Photos skyrocketed feature usage
“Talking about the Google Photos app, there was these things that were out of sight and out of mind for people. And when we made those features visible and obvious to people, all of a sudden usage of that skyrocketed.”
Wroblewski: Top-aligned web form labels at eBay China increased conversions 20%
“We put the top aligned labels above the form fields and we had like a 20% increase in conversions or something like that.”
Wroblewski: Modern mobile apps are collections of OS extensions, not standalone software
“An app isn't really an app. It's a set of notifications. It's could be a custom keyboard associated with it. It's a share extension. It's an integration in a messaging service.”
Wroblewski: Copying big tech design without internal data is dangerous
“So you just run a dangerous game when you say, oh, Google did this. Facebook did this. Snapchat did this. Because you're not in there. You don't know why they're doing it. You don't have the data. And without that information, you're just kind of guessing that…”
Wroblewski: Digital interfaces will never completely abandon visual affordances
“And I don't believe in a world where we get away completely from affordances.”
Wroblewski: Removing Wi-Fi from goods will eventually cost more than inclusion
“Similarly, the cost of adding Wi-Fi to things is approaching a similar thing. They're going to have to pay a lot more to remove the network thing and make all the other components not work with the Wi-Fi thing or network thing or whatever it happens to be.”
Wroblewski: Facebook's early iOS app suffered from using HTML web views
“When their iOS app, they literally had like an HTML web view, JavaScript rendering pseudo browser, making the feed. They hadn't, didn't write it in native code and the thing would crash and it was slow and memory was just a zoo.”