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

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Most people I work with don’t even know what it is anymore.

At first you think its the young ones that have never used a version of Windows with the word "Start" next to, but then you run into people of any age that dont know what the start menu is and you have to start calling it the windows button. Its infuriating

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