On Jan 22, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Bruno Figueiredo wrote: > I think that people are generally unaware that these products can > indeed be much better. So that points us towards education. > Shouldn't we be educating the general public? Maybe by rewarding > good interfaces or by giving them information about what a good > product should be?
A number of reasons, in no specific order: 1. Traction—they're used to a product or crappy interface/experience and don't see a need to change. 2. Fear of change. 3. Lack of knowledge—don't know any better. 4. Really good sales person. Just look at Lotus applications—ugh! 5. Sold on functionality—ever seen applications used in trading? UI? What UI? Information hierarchy? What's that? 6. Buyer isn't the user. How many people here in large-mid sized companies? Go ahead, raise your hands. Okay, how many of you get to pick the platform and applications you use? Oh, right. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. ---------------------------------- Contact Info Voice: (215) 825-7423 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://toddwarfel.com ---------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
