Bramus asked developers which control they build, then used the tally as evidence for which control is usable!

Those are different questions. Developer preference is confounded with convention and implementation convenience. If asking developers what they build gave us data on what UI is most usable, we wouldn’t need user testing, ever 😅

We optimize UIs around user goals, not around developer preferences. In fact, more often than not there is a tension between what is easiest to build and what is optimal for usability, because usability is all about abstracting the underlying model (which is closer to the machine), and exposing a model that is closer to how the user thinks.

We optimize UIs around user goals, not around developer preferences. In fact, more often than not there is a tension between what is easiest to build and what is optimal for usability, because usability is all about abstracting the underlying model (which is closer to the machine), and exposing a model that is closer to how the user thinks.