{"id":925,"date":"2011-09-16T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T10:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2011-09-16T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T10:31:32","slug":"defaults-are-everything-for-95-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/defaults-are-everything-for-95-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Defaults are everything for 95% of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uie.com\/brainsparks\/2011\/09\/14\/do-users-change-their-settings\/\">Do users change their settings? \u00bb UIE Brain Sparks<\/a>. Then, think really hard about the way you design your next piece of software, website, object, etc, because 95% of your audience will likely experience it the way they first see it. They won&#8217;t tweak fonts, change font size, or anything else. If it&#8217;s a TV, they&#8217;ll use it on default settings, and won&#8217;t switch it to saner brightness\/contrast\/whatever settings, or retune it to receive more channels. If it&#8217;s a computer, they&#8217;ll probably never change the desktop picture, screen saver or keyboard shortcuts. If it&#8217;s a car, they might not even know that you can change the steering wheel position.<\/p>\n<p>If you change your environment to better suit your needs, you&#8217;re not normal. Other people are not like you. Give yourself a pat on the back for exploring, but don&#8217;t be surprised when everyone you know is using the defaults, and make sure that you choose good defaults for your projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read\u00a0Do users change their settings? \u00bb UIE Brain Sparks. Then, think really hard about the way you design your next piece of software, website, object, etc, because 95% of your audience will likely experience it the way they first see it. They won&#8217;t tweak fonts, change font size, or anything else. If it&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/defaults-are-everything-for-95-of-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defaults are everything for 95% of us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}