How Math Helped Design Your Mouse Pointer

You might believe that your mouse arrow , and the rest period of your computer ’s user interface for that matter , was designed with a pail load of human intuition and large dollop of pattern savvy . You ’d be veracious , of course — but there was also a respectable amount of math involved in the process .

In this television , Dr Sarah Wiseman explicate how a slice of math known as Fitts ’s Law was used by interface designer to help make them as easy to use as possible . I wo n’t get bogged down in the math here , instead letting Sarah excuse — but if you want to sleep together more , then the Wikipedia article isan interesting first whole step .

[ Computerphile ]