I thought the 'trickle down technology' analogy was a little questionable, but I find a lot in his talk that resonates with me as a user.
I would like to react, but I will probably record a podcast lil later. On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:58:23PM +0100, Harry van Haaren wrote: > > > Should we improve experience for users? > > Should we design "experience driven open" software? > > Should we forward the UX of Linux Audio to the "age of experiences"? > > Well, I watched the video until the end, and the only way to > avoid this having been a waste of my time seems to react to > it. Balkan's talk itself is an example of 'experience driven > design'. It goes down easily as it should according to his > own theories, but once you start thinking a bit about what > he says you discover it's only a thin layer of sugar around > nothing. Take the way he compares 'trickle down ecomony' > with 'trickle down technology'. A vague similarity that is > supposed to imply something. But does it ? If there is > really any meaning to this I must be too stupid to grok it. > > There is actually a similarity, but not the one he intended, > between a trickle down economy and the type of world he seems > to dream about: one consisting of a majority of dumb 'users' > and an elite of CEO's having great 'design' ideas (remember, > design has to be driven from the top), and in between a third > layer, just above the unwashed masses of users, of 'developers > who need to be just smart enough to realise the bright ideas > of their CEO. > > That division may even de facto exist, I'm not going to > dispute that. But I'm not going to help make it worse, and > I'll add why: there's one significant difference between > the users who expect everything (including thinking) to be > done for them, and those who are prepared to learn: the > latter will say 'thank you'. > > > -- > FA > > A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. > It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris > and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/
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