Former Microsoft exec explain how a behavioral psychologist utilized Fitts's law to place the Windows 95 Start button in the bottom-left.

Former Microsoft exec explain how a behavioral psychologist utilized Fitts’s law to place the Windows 95 Start button in the bottom-left.

Paywall?

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    I wonder if later 10/11 changed their default to the center for related reasoning

    As far as I can tell, the rationale for most design changes in Windows is that someone is getting paid to make design changes in Windows.