The myth of discoverability

September 29, 2004

Ran across this post on uiweb and it really spoke to me...the need to balance needs.

Discoverability is often defined as the ability for a user of a design to locate something that they need, in order to complete a certain task. It is common to hear programmers and designers utter the phrase *that wont be discoverable*, while pointing to a specific command or link they believe users will fail to find. The trap, and the myth, of discoverability is that in any design, not everything can be discoverable.

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