Comment by iso1631
2 days ago
Relevant history from the US Airforce in the 1940s when they tried to build a cockpit for the average pilot and failed
I find this an interesting take on the story
2 days ago
Relevant history from the US Airforce in the 1940s when they tried to build a cockpit for the average pilot and failed
I find this an interesting take on the story
This is also a good argument why "opinionated" designs like from Apple are a bad idea. The average user does not exist. Stop trying to turn us into one!
That’s different. Deciding you’re building a tool for a specific use-case is not related to “average users”.
Tool companies manufacture claw hammers despite some people wanting a nail gun. You don’t try to make a thing flexible enough to be both a nail gun and a hammer.
I’m a power user and I do all of my customization on my Linux desktop/laptop. I use an iPhone specifically because it’s locked down and don’t want a keyboard that has gone through no code review stealing all of my banking credentials.
I have used an iPhone for 8 years and a macbook for 2 years. Every year the experience gets worse, like on schedule. This theory might explain what is happening!
Same with Windows; that's why I switched to Linux.
From the article, it seems like even if we only consider one dimension, there'd be ~70% of pilots that are uncomfortable. I'd have thought to at least cover 1 standard deviation, thus covering 68% of "average" pilots. But with 10 dimension it'd still only cover measly 2% of them. If we go to 2 std (95%), the 10-power would be ~60%. Quite small but seems acceptable if the initial target is only ~30% of pilots.
But of course this assume all variables are independent. Seems like we could actually push the tolerance much lower than this raw math would suggest.