On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:00:51AM -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote: | I'd caution about the poker hand, though. One year when I taught | first-year undergraduate CS, we included an assignment that had to do | with decks of cards and card games. A surprising number of people had | never seen decks of cards before, and were unfamiliar with the concept. | I did not observe whether the (un)familiarity was correlated with what | part of the world they came from. | | Perhaps a notification "You've never visited this site before" that | pushes down from the top like some other notifications might go a long | way?
Whatever we choose, it's essential to test early and often with real people who are being exposed to it for the first time, and in a way that makes it possible for them to critique the UI without being made to feel stupid.
As Ian points out, real people surprise you in surprising ways.
Adam