begin quoting Christian Seberino as of Tue, May 01, 2007 at 05:49:52PM -0700: > > On Tue, May 1, 2007 3:57 pm, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > Its about ease of choice. If in > > That's somewhat of an oxymoron. Part of making things easy for enduser is > to NOT have too many choices.
Up to a point. A user wants enough choices so that they feel like they're in control, but no so many that they can't make a non-random choice without investing a lot of time and trouble. I suspect that for some people, the two boundaries overlap: the minimum number of choices to make them feel in control is more than the maximum number of choices they can handle without choosing randomly. Of cource, given a choice, many users *choose* to go with what everyone else has chosen, on the assumption that those people have done their homework and are making an informed choice. . . -- If you don't want to give me choices, then make /my/ preferences the default. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
