On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Daniel Pope wrote: > It's often said that most programmers suck at HCI, but at least most > programmers know to copy designs that work. You'd have to be pretty > arrogant to think that you can design a better GUI than what the entire > industry has researched and developed over 30 years.
If you only ever copy stuff that works, you’ll never do anything new. Just because that’s what we’ve always done doesn’t mean it’s the best way. A completely different approach, even if it turns out in the end to be worse, is not a bad thing in itself. -- Benjamin M. A’Lee || mail: b...@subvert.org.uk web: http://bma.subvert.org.uk/ || gpg: 0x166891C7 “If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.” — Tony Benn
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