RE: UI considerations

[Thomas Hedler <thomas hedler fen baynet de>]

On 09-Aug-99 nelson-gnome@crynwr.com wrote:
> 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.

After point four you have to insert:
    o The Marketing says now what the UI has to look like!
      I really think that the "Start-Button-Shut-Down" problem
      comes from the marketing just after they have buied the
      Rolling-Stones Song "Start me up"!!! ;-)
 
> In the Unix world, we only do the first two steps.
> 
> Is this too inaccurate a summary?

The testing of naive users is difficult. The people that submit
bugs or UI-wishes are mostly experienced users.

Maybe we should implement a help on UI-configuration, submitting 
UI-wishes etc.

Thomas



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