Peter, if you think you can make programs more user-friendly by clarifying the dialog, take a look at Joel Spolsky's blog on user interface design, particularly:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html The other posts in the UI series are excellent and you may want to have a look at them. Anyway, it's hard to make software usable to someone who, for instance, doesn't understand the difference between using the web and a local program. As a programmer, it will probably require a whole new thought process to deal with this degree of confusion. To take an example, to me www.quia.com/web looks broken and badly designed compared to www.mnemosyne-proj.org, but to most people it probably looks better. Also, I can name some reasons: the cute bug for Mnemosyne, vs non-compliant formatting, text that overlaps with other text, a "Go" link pretending to be a button, etc. for Quia. But the target audience will probably be unable to articulate their preference, and just have a feeling that Quia is more "professional". So anyway, I don't want you to cripple your mind trying to contort it into their view of the computer world :) It may be easier for you to ask the advice of a good UI designer, whose mind is presumably already broken to some extent, or take quidnunc's good advice and get your mom or other average people (the kind of people who think everything on the computer is "Windows") and just watch what they do with Mnemosyne. -- Ben ----------------- Original message ----------------- From: Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:33:44 +0200 On Monday 21 September 2009 01:40:56 am [email protected] wrote: > I tried the link for PCs but Windows says it doesn't understand TML > files and I sure the heck don't either. > > Thanks for the video but it only shows using mnemosyne and not the > step by step actual making of the cards --especially the three dim. > ones with sound. I tried making a card and I put in a Q and than an A > then I had a choice preview or exit The dialog says "Type question and answer, then pick initial grade". Apparently this is not yet clear enough, so I'll revisit this for 2.0. Thanks for the feedback! Peter PS: BTW, I really appreciate all the mails from people trying to help newcomers, it really shows what a friendly community we have here! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
