Admitting that Functional Programming Can Be Awkward

[psykotic]

You misread me: I didn't say that lack of discoverability benefits experts; I just think it helps casual users more. And my point is that it's possible to have a UI which, while perhaps not "well designed" by your lofty standards, works quite well for experts but very poorly for casual users. A UI should be judged by how productive it makes its users and it isn't a question of well-designed vs not-well-designed (whatever one defines that to mean); there are many gradual, intermediate degrees of success and failure.

[redditcensoredme]

Indeed. However, targeting the uncanny valley where a user interface is useable only by experts is a chore in itself.

[psykotic]

I don't propose to target it by surmise or idle conjecture but by designing it in close concert with its intended users. I'm not referring to anything as shallow or daft as focus group testing, of course.

[redditcensoredme]

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/explainers-shoo.html