Walter Dnes wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:07:35PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote
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>>Having listened to said usability experts and found that all the
>>software that I like completely breaks at least five of their seven
>>heuristics, I wouldn't be inclined to take them too seriously... Their
>>main premise seems to be that "learning is bad". And if you don't want
>>to learn, you're using the wrong distribution...
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> Agree 100% there. My complaint about "user-friendly" software is that
>it does *NOT* bring new users up the speed of a veteran. Instead, it
>slows down veteran users to the speed of a newbie. The best analogy is
>the comparison between bicycles and tricycles. Tricycles are much
>easier for a new user whose never seen either a bicycle or a tricycle
>before. You're much less likely to fall over. Now imagine a policy
>that no-one could ride bicycles, but that everybody must ride tricycles.
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> This probably gives away my age, and many people won't get it, but
>here's a description of how "user-friendly software" works.
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>And dee first menu is connected to dee second menu
>And dee second menu is connected to dee third menu
>And dee third menu is connected to dee fourth menu
>etc, etc...
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> This message being composed in an 80 x 48 text-console, using vim as
>the text-editor invoked by mutt.
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At least we do not have to worry about 75% of the windows user base
converting to Linux, until AOL comes out with Linux compatable software!
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