04 1 / 2011
The Death of Files | Dustin Curtis
The user doesn’t need to know about the technology used behind a product. It doesn’t matter if information is stored in a file, database or several files. The user thinks in terms of tasks and goals he is trying to achieve and when you let users do that, suddenly there is no learning curve for your product. Users already know how to look at a photograph, how to play a song or get rid of an old unnecessary document.
