On 4/2/07, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/2/07, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but I think that if the application is used only in enterprises > and such, the users probably won´t care. And then the enterprise will > be more interrested in productivity then in a confortable user > interface experience. >
Exactly! I can think of many examples where Enterprise applications
don't even come close to resembling the native platform at all, but yet companies like Microsoft (Media Player 9, Office XP & 2007, Outlook), Sun (Java) and IBM (Java, Lotus SmartSuite) sell those and nobody complains.
Good point. I have been flying around quite a bit in the last few years and whenever I am at a travel agent, I see the same UI: a command line console thing in a window (they use the most cryptic commands I have ever seen). I took the time to ask one or two of them what they think of that UI as opposed to a more windows-like UI and they said that it quite simply much faster even though it has a higher learning curve. So I agree, in a corporate environment the productivity is MUCH more important. I think the user's experience is still very important, but when a choice needs to be made between the two, productivity would have to win. Charl -- "I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
