Re: Call for constructive user criticism.

["jack wallen, jr" <jlwallen iglou com>]

but don't you think since the *users* of gnome are the target - you would
want to know what they are looking for?  there are users out there (i like
to think of myself as such) who know what to look for in a user interface.
this has come from using a great many of them and knowing what works and
what doesn't.  maybe my skills as a developer are null but i think having
opinions from every side of the coin helps.  

and why would you want to cut yourself off from end user opinion?  that's
a very Microsoftian philosophy - in my opinion.

anyway...not cutting down anyone's ideas.   i just think that too often
the *user's* voice is ignored.  many times on this list (gnome-list that
is) i get ignored - be it question or suggestion or announcement of a
topic i am writing about.  (if the gnome-list is strictly for devs let me
know and i'll gladly jump ship ;-) ).


just my .02.

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 nelson-gnome@crynwr.com wrote:

> Miguel de Icaza writes:
>  >    1. A team of *users* that would tell us what they would like to see
>  >       in GNOME:
>  > 
>  >       a. To make the interface easier. 
>  >       b. To make it more intuitive to people.
>  >       c. To make the system more consistent.
>  >       d. To make the system "nicer".
>  >       e. To make GNOME the best user interface out there.
> 
> I'm not sure that *users* know what to ask for.  I don't think that
> anecdotal evidence is the best way to improve a UI.  Probably the best 
> thing to do would be to find a University with a good HCI department
> (U. Toronto comes to mind) and "partner" with them.  Partnering is
> good, because it is marketing buzzword #45.
> 
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