Op 23-apr.-2015 22:59 schreef "Fons Adriaensen" <f...@linuxaudio.org>: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 07:47:50AM +0200, Thijs van severen wrote: > > > > People writing 'GUI standards' and trying to force them on everyone > > > should have a look at e.g. a modern 'glass cockpit'. > > > > We are not talking about someone that suddenly decided to make up there own > > set rules and then tried to fore it upon us > > We are talking about a group of people that conducted a study on a large > > group of random users, and based on that study they defined a set of > > guidelines for us to use ... or ignore > > And in the case I mentioned (flight deck displays and user interfaces) > were are talking about *specialists* in ergonomics who have conducted > a not one but a series of studies and experiments involving a large > group of *expert* users and costing tons of money.
If you are writing a softsynth that will be used by a pilot i guess you might want to use this approach If you want more people to be able to use it i sugest you dont. ;-) All kidding aside i think that Gianfranco nailed it when he was talking about target audience Grtz Thijs And the result is > quite different. So whom do you think I should believe ? > > During my lunch break today I'be been reading a number of UI design > guidelines. Of course there is some truth in them. It would be rather > difficult not to find out the value of consistency, of reasonable > color schemes and layout etc. > > But *all* of them, without exception, seem to assume that the user > is some ignorant nitwit, without any prior knowledge about the > application domain and too lazy to learn, let alone read a manual > or $GOD help us, configure the software he is trying to use. Or > not actually use but just play around with it a bit. > > That type of user may and actually does exist, and that may be where > the money (or fame) is, but it is *not* the type of user I'm writing > for or even remotely interested in. > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. > It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris > and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) >
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