Comments on: Simple Technology

By: cjpro

cjpro — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:47:05 +0000

Yes, it may seem elementary. Yet, the fact doesn’t phase many developer’s minds as they are still set on an old practice of developing for their own use. I want to point out that more features are not what we need right now. I mean, what kind of user will want to use a program if they first have to figure out some of the configuration settings or learn how to do what they did with older version again because the keys they are used to have changed because they are now used by other features.

By: MattJ

MattJ — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:57:51 +0000

You said “DO THE LAYOUT FIRST AND MAKE IT EASY TO USE BEFORE YOU ADD FEATURES! ”

Doesn’t it seem elementary? There’s definitely been a shift to “Well, I can use it” especially in the Open Source world. I shudder every time I see a new screener of Vista and friends and family who use XP still don’t seem to know how to do simple things like “use a contextual menu”.

Good article. Keep it simple.

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By: cjpro

cjpro — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:48:12 +0000

I should make another post explaining how to make programs easy to use

By: Joshua Gigg

Joshua Gigg — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:07:19 +0000

How true…