You may not think of Linus Torvalds as an interaction designer, but he is sort of a rock star in the software and open source community.
And if you think of Linux as a product for scientists, engineers, sys admins, and programmers, he really has made it user friendly by sticking to interfaces that is already understood and accepted. Even better, by making it open source the user is included in the design process. Looking at the quality and richness of some open source software, the whole consept of open source software is in my view a beautiful systems. I don't see Linux as universally user friendly, but that wasn't the original goal. The ills about Linux is not understanding how it is not ready for the consumer market, or seriously underestimating the efforts to do so (or is that just indicating the quality of commercial software?). That said, things are improving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38833 ________________________________________________________________ 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
