Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Well-designed products (22 Jul 2004) To be perfectly honest, I think the ideal of software as 'intuitive' is sometimes quite fanciful or even misguided (and is likely the motivation behind scores of useless interfaces designed around some contrived metaphor). Because software can so often magically perform some task we'd never dreamed possible, it seems unlikely that in our wonder we'd also consider it to be entirely intuitive. Article URL: http://www.cooper.com/content/insights/newsletters/2004_issue03/Well_designed_products.asp Read 77 more articles from Cooper sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Where do product managers fit?     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy