El 25/02/14 19:08, Stephen Russell escribió:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Jerry Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
Tying it back to us, a better OS or DBMS is a good thing.
But new isn't always better, and if there's a three-month learning
curve every couple years to get back to providing the same services
we provide, that's not a good thing.
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So advancements are only good if nothing really changes? It is only good
if it was just like the last one?
If you give me the same functionality then let me handle it in the same
way. Is it too hard to understand that? If you give me extra
functionality then, if it is worth my time, I'll learn how to operate
it. But it should be MY, the user's, option to do so.
You can't tell me your user interfaces are so shitty that you MUST
change them RADICALLY every couple of years. If this is so, just fire
the people that are designing them, they are not doing their job. That
is, if their job is to provide a USEFUL (to the user) service
I tend to not put the demands on my train ability as another products
value. I try to let that product stand on it's own and judge it that way.
Many times designers know a lot more about functionality and usage than us
ordinary folk. I attempt to grasp their intent instead of fight it because
my rote memory and reflexes no longer fit the item at hand.
Do you folks have a hard time when you rent a car because stuff is laid out
differently?
You mean the gas and brake pedals are inverted or actioned in a
different way every two years?
Or the radio controls are not between the driver and the navigator? Or
the driver is facing aft? Or they changed the colour code of the car's
lights?
Shit! I must be getting old! Never noticed they changed that.
I bet they also change the colour code of electrical wiring every couple
of years. Or the measures system (sure, you've adopted the metric system
so fast and easy). I bet all technical industry standards change every
couple of years.
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