On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:27:59 -0700, r wrote: >
> > Sounds like "somebody" failed to get input > > from their users at design time. Or "somebody" has the inability to > > relate to their end users. > > You're assuming that there is some "right" answer which is appropriate for > all users. There isn't. > I worked for a company that had a team composed of graphic artists, QA types, etc...that did nothing but draw up GUI's, show them to customers, revise them, write up runnable "dummies" of the approved GUI's, performed usability studies with our customers using the dummy GUI's, and finally handed the GUI's over to dev so they could put in the guts to make it "do stuff". "Bugs" or "Cases" involving the GUI needing revision because a button needed to be moved for usability were *extremely* rare, and the GUI didn't require an additional toolset that allowed end users to tweak them. -- Computers are like air conditioners... They quit working when you open Windows.
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