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Tracy Boyington said:
>While we're here, let's talk about this "flattening the learning curve."
>I'm afraid I didn't see John's original post, but it sounds to me like
>he's saying flattening the curve means people learn faster. And
>everybody says this... everybody says a program that's hard to learn has
>a "steep learning curve." But if you picture a graph with time on one
>axis and amount learned on the other, you'd see that a steep learning
>curve means you learn a lot in a short amount of time.
I've always thought that a "steep learning curve" meant that a product
was designed so that users were forced to learn a lot in a short amount
of time to be productive. To "flatten the learning curve" means (to me,
anyway) to design a product so that users can be productive quickly, and
then continue to learn new features at a slower pace.
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