Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
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".
Quite. But if a requirement is to be able to retroconfibulate the
document and the application provides no retroconfibulate functionality
then no amount of polish, presentation or documentation will fix it.
As we say over here - 'You can't polish a turd'.
Cheers,
A
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