I feel like this discussion is ceasing to be educational...
- a On 1/27/07, Andrew Larcombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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