Thanks for the links. I appreciated Andrew Price's frankness about the (big) mistakes in his Improving Blender Usability project, and the lessons learned from the process. His willingness to laugh at himself over that does him credit.
I think Leo's current state is nicely captured by his quote of Alan Cooper (~24min) "*...the goals of the programmer and the goals of the user are dramatically different. The programmer wants the construction process to be smooth and easy. The user wants the interaction with the program to be smooth and easy. These two objectives almost never result in the same program." *(from Inmates are Running the Asylum<http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/0672316498> ). It's probably fair to say that for Edward and the other folks who are old hands the usability of Leo is awesome. :) I find it somewhat disheartening that the only way out, given in the talk anyway, is to assemble a UI team that has full control over the interface design and doesn't come from either the user or developer camps. That's not something I see happening for Leo anytime soon; the project just isn't at that scale. Still, I enjoyed the talk and the thinking it's stirred up in me. cheers, -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
