# Usability

`kaal:entity:usability`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 5 claims that carry the concept tag `usability`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

5 claims across 5 works, 2019 to 2021.

**2019**

- [3406323-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-021) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Mass adoption of decentralized protocols will remain out of reach so long as users must discern and manage public and private keys to wallets, because user access and usability fall short of mass adoption needs.
  > It will be very difficult to educate the public sufficiently to seamlessly adopt decentralized protocols in their daily life if users have to discern and manage public and private keys to wallets, among other concerns.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323
- [3411897-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-026) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Without intuitive consumer access points comparable to iTunes, decentralized systems cannot reach mainstream consumer adoption, because users currently must manage their own security, keys, and wallets.
  > Without such intuitive consumer support access points, it is difficult to see how decentralized systems can ever reach mainstream consumer adoption.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

**2020**

- [3606663-029](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3606663-029) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- At the beginning of the 2020s DeFi was not sufficiently user friendly, because core interfaces such as metamask, myetherwallet, and scatter require levels of technical know how in handling public and private keys that most lay users do not possess.
  > At the beginning of the 2020s, DeFi was not sufficiently user friendly.
  Kaal, Digital Asset Market Evolution (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3606663

**2021**

- [3808859-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-022) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Open source products are systematically weak on usability, documentation, support, and testing, because contributors are experts writing for experts and are more interested in the code than in explaining it to other users.
  > The usability of open source products is often underdeveloped and support and testing are often less evolved and not as readily available in open source projects.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859
- [3808873-041](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-041) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Usability is the most important decentralized infrastructure requirement: without intuitive graphic user interfaces, decentralized systems may not reach mainstream consumer adoption, because requiring users to manage public and private keys and their own security makes sufficient public education very difficult.
  > Without graphic user interfaces that are intuitive, decentralized systems may not be able to reach mainstream consumer adoption.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/usability.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.