On 02/11/2010 01:06 PM, Ximin Luo wrote: > On 02/10/2010 08:46 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: >>> And before you say I'm a developer, I don't know anything about UI, IMHO >>> that is the wrong attitude. Most UI is created by developers, and we need to >>> improve our skills at it. >> >> We've had almost a decade to test our UI skills with Freenet, the result is >> the mess we have today. We need a fresh perspective, and a fresh >> perspective inherently means that we can't do it piecemeal. > > a few man-decades. bigger projects have had hundreds of man-decades. > > from a project co-ordination point of view, you're going to need to bring in > someone specially (GSoC?) to do a UI overhaul.
and that would help with the whole "Good UIs are designed starting from the user's needs, and working backwards. Freenet's current UI has been designed starting with freenet's current architecture and working forward." thing. X
