UI considerations

[nelson-gnome crynwr com]

Microsoft creates their UI like this:
  o they speculate on what makes a good UI.
  o they build a UI in those myriad ways.
  o they test these UI's on naive and experienced users.
  o they standardize on the UI that proves most usable by the community.

In the Unix world, we only do the first two steps.

Is this too inaccurate a summary?

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