To what extent is it still valid to assume that your web app users are stupid?
13th October 2010
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They’re not stupid, but they’re probably WAY less web literate than you might expect—unlike you, they haven’t spent their entire career learning how the web works. See the famous “What is a browser?” video the Google Chrome team released:
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