On 12/12/06, Ted Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The people that it's tough for is *us*, the designers and the engineers, because we're going to have to spend time time to think about these sorts of problems and find ways to ease the pain. It means we might have to try/build 3 or 4 or 10 designs in order to get it right. And if that's what it takes, that's what we're going to do.
i don't define "get it right" as "treat users as if they are stupid", but that's what i feel sometimes in these design discussions, even though i know that's not what mimi or priscilla is actually thinking. i'm all for a tool that makes it easy for the user to do his shared calendaring stuff. but i'm not for obscuring or flat out hiding things. when apple does this it makes me want to scream. there's got to be some kind of balance between the apple and microsoft extremes that lets users take a little control over how they use their own software. i'm not asking for every user to understand or care about competing calendaring standards. i just want the "power user" (which is a term that i think marginalizes the people who are most likely to use our software in the next year) to not be frustrated by our over-catering to the "simple user". _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
