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Re: focus indicators and usability studies

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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Jun 13, 2014 12:12PM

You folks made me laugh a lot with your responses. If I had
direct access to the Naysayers in question I absolutely would do
those things. :D

Kevin's question in particular made me smile:

> I am curious, do they have usability studies for all design decisions that they make? Do they have any that show that removal of focus indicators *is* a good idea?

I'm having happy dreams at the moment of an imaginary world where
design decisions are actually made this way (which would include
paying attention to the usability studies about how much users
really hate change).

I think Michelangelo's link from NNG is exactly what I needed --
now hopefully they will listen. (I don't think there's a
usability use case they are trying to meet with removing focus
indicators, although like I said I don't have direct access to
the people making those decisions. I think it's more that they
don't necessarily understand why they exist, and "usability
study" is more convincing language to them.

Thank you, all!

Deborah