Trying to explain user experience

Via: Current Photographer > PetaPixel

This isn't an easy topic to explain. Why would some buy a feature lacking Leica M9, when there are better and less expensive cameras out there? Well, better only accounts for features and picture quality (variation at this point in quality is negligible), it doesn't however account for user experience or as John Ricard explains it, "usability." There is also the fact that limitations force one to, as John Ricard puts it, "focus." You may not be able to get every shot, but the shots you do get are "focused." They are honed and perfected, because after all, you have less to work with. I don't believe using the word "focus" is the best choice (it is and it isn't), but his meaning comes through.

Well designed technology should be simple to use, allowing the user to spend less time on operating and more time on the end result of what that technology was intended to do. Ease of use and physical workflow are important to professionals and amateurs alike. The more experience one has with photography or videomaking the more one develops or requires his or her tools to work the way that makes the most sense for them.