On Saturday 08 December 2007 11:11:03 pm DJ Delorie wrote: > Russ is a college buddy of mine, and we've been conversing on his "new > gEDA user" perspective as he tries to learn the tools. He gave me > permission to pass this particular email along, but keep in mind it > was written for my sympathetic ear, hence it may sound "grumpy".
> Suggestion: do some usability studies. A list from the wxWidgets book project on the issue: Apple Human Interface Guidelines: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/index.html Key differences between Mac OS X and Windows UIs: http://developer.apple.com/ue/switch/windows.html GNOME Human Interface Guidelines: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers, by Jeff Johnson (Academic Press). ISBN 1-55860-582-7 User Interface Design for Programmers, by Joel Spolsky (Apress). ISBN 1-893115-94-1 Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage- Centered Design, by Larry L. Constantine and Lucy A.D. Lockwood (ACM Press). ISBN 0-201-92478-1 > I'm sure this will be a good thing, but IMHO software that needs > documentation is software that needs fixing. Software that doesn't have documentation is even worse. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
