Expanding on this.
If someone posting in here automatically means the aren't a representative
user, and IRC would mean they're even more interested in technology and
therefore also aren't a representative user,then how do representative users
give their input?
> Subject: Re: This list, suggestions, frustration
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:01:15 +0100
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> On 5 Jul 2010, at 21:43, Owen Taylor wrote:
>
> > * You aren't a representative user. (How do I know
> > this? Because you are reading a mailing list on gnome.org; which
> > puts your interest in technology and motivation well beyond most
> > users.) Our goal is that GNOME 3.0 is better than GNOME 2.0
> > for *all* users, including you, but you need to be aware that
> > changes have to take into account that larger set of users.
>
> This is very true... and I suspect a related cause of this particular
> frustration is probably that those target users don't seem to be clearly
> defined anywhere. Neither do any task analyses or usability studies or other
> feedback from some of those representative users, which the design team has
> hopefully been gathering to define or validate prototypes as they're going
> along, seem to be readily available to peruse.
>
> Lack of that sort of information often leads people to assume (however
> incorrectly) that designers are just making "best guesses", rather than
> informed decisions. Which in turn leads the onlookers at large to believe
> that their opinions have just as much chance of influencing the ongoing
> design as anybody else's, resulting in everyone just diving in saying how
> *they'd* like it to work :) And the inevitable lack of detailed responses
> from busy developers does indeed result in some of that "pent-up frustration"
> that Owen refers to.
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
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