On Feb 1, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Sebastian Sastre <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Johan Fabry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For what it's worth: this was asked on the users list (some months ago). >> There were about 5 replies and they were positive. I do not recall having >> any negative replies. >> >> I think that asking much more than that is hard, given the nature of mailing >> lists and the comity being busy with many other things. > > Yeah we are totally exposed to the problem of having ~null usability tests so > our UI are non-designers attempts to get it incrementally right > > That’s a hard one. > > We really need help from design universities students Yes, something like this would be great. If it's a consolation: this kind of problem is present throughout the programming language research community. There's a great paper by Hanenberg on that. It's called "Faith, hope, and love: an essay on software science's neglect of human factors". (OOPSLA 2010) Well worth the read! ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile
