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Commander Keen, is that you?
Geek Transportation Systems
On my first visit to the Fog Creek Software offices in 2008, I was surprised to see programmers zooming around the office on scooters. I didn't realize that scooters were something geeks would be into, but it sure looked like fun, albeit borderline dangerous fun, on the 25th floor of an office ...
The song stopped, I clicked the little "update" button in your last example, you are god! The button in your example when presented in the way it was presented really got me excited about clicking it. Even though I knew that it was just an image, and that nothing would happen, I clicked it.
I provided the same picture in this comment... You want to click it? Right? Your fingers are itching, you must! YOU CAN NOT RESIST IT ANYMORE! Give in Jeff, give in, it will feel better, and you'll become god.
The Opposite of Fitts' Law
If you've ever wrangled a user interface, you've probably heard of Fitts' Law. It's pretty simple -- the larger an item is, and the closer it is to your cursor, the easier it is to click on. Kevin Hale put together a great visual summary of Fitts' Law, so rather than over-explain it, I'll refer...
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