I agree that this is a useful and, to the company I would hope, a valuable topic in which the userbase could assist the company to develop a product geared towards the enduser (non-geek) market that could help bring in greater revenue than may ultimately be generated by the 'diminishing marginal returns geek market'.
I had thought of this possibility last night when I first read Richmond's comment... Richard, what is the possibility of either a separately-sanctioned Yahoo discussion group or the merging of the improve-docs thread along with an improve-UI thread for the existing group? I am quite certain that all the real geeks have long since tired of reading our comments/rants/other regarding the usability of Rev/Dreamcard. Perhaps if comments similar to those which have been offered on the improve-docs group could be offered up and backed up with sound research or reasoning, the company would be willing to take a look? Judy On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, steve messimer wrote: > Richard > > > As you will by now be aware, I am particularly interested > >in usability - specifically for non-computer types, and to > >that end made rather over-the-top tool bars for both RR & > >MC, and then went to one particular extreme with my thesis. > > > > I do believe that far too little attention is paid to the > >end-user experience and wonder if now is not the time to > >start a use-list specifically dedicated to this - and keep > >the current - MC and RR lists for xTalk related matters > >only. The nature of RR/MC readily lends itself to the rapid > >development of a wide variety of user interfaces - and, > >owing to the cross-platform nature of RR/MC, is, to my > >mind, one of the better RADs for UI development and > >experimentation. > > I have been interested in this since Hypercard first appeared on the market. > On first glance rapid educational development using xTalk seemed the way to > go. But what I found at least was that from scratch development of useful > educational applications could take months. Part of the problem ( and there > are many others besides is that higher order development tools were not > available ) To build these was very time consuming. Now if you are an > instructor at any level time is not a commodity that is available in great > supply. I started working on preceptortools back in the late 80's. While > it was never a commercial success I think that some of the ideas still have > merit. > > If you have never looked at it you are welcome to do so by going to my > website which is still up and running. http://www.messimercomputing.com > > I would welcome the opportunity to participate in a dialog regarding methods > of improving the usability of development environments for educational > purposes. > > Regards, > > Steve Messimer, PA > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
