As I get some distance from seeing things for the first time, I definitely had some huge status quo bias and didn’t properly account for how I’d learn the new icons—and there’s also the fact that my old browser cache caused big bugs for the first few hours I saw the new site, and that was the period when I made my comments about it.
I bet this sort of thing is very common, and can think of two ways to handle it. One would be not caring, since people will be fine with it in a while anyhow. The other would be marketing and laying groundwork, not like a discussion but more like a marketing campaign and an instruction manual. Hell, I bet there’s a book on this problem somewhere.
Aaaanyhow, please don’t feel blue because we’re jerks. The new site’s great, and it will keep improving. Well, hopefully :D
As I get some distance from seeing things for the first time, I definitely had some huge status quo bias and didn’t properly account for how I’d learn the new icons—and there’s also the fact that my old browser cache caused big bugs for the first few hours I saw the new site, and that was the period when I made my comments about it.
I bet this sort of thing is very common, and can think of two ways to handle it. One would be not caring, since people will be fine with it in a while anyhow. The other would be marketing and laying groundwork, not like a discussion but more like a marketing campaign and an instruction manual. Hell, I bet there’s a book on this problem somewhere.
Aaaanyhow, please don’t feel blue because we’re jerks. The new site’s great, and it will keep improving. Well, hopefully :D