At 2007-01-27 14:49:53 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You're putting the cart before the horse
Then you're using the horse to transport the cart rapidly in the wrong direction. ;-) > basic essentials != polish, presentation and documentation. If good documentation and a thoughtfully designed interface are merely "nice additions", you've started off on the wrong foot. The essentials are what a user needs to use the software to accomplish whatever they want to do in the simplest and most efficient way possible. Using dancing icons to "polish" something that was not designed with a user firmly in mind goes hand in hand with having documentation saying things like "Click on the 'retroconfibulate' icon to retroconfibulate the current document". -- ams P.S. In my experience, marketing departments are as bad as programmers at understanding what users want. And commercial software developers, by and large, tend to have the same contempt for documentation as any random open source project. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
