In
<CAE1XxDHfukQr+goYTqy65g=c50ffjoofq0bzvb5d5ewf8rj...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 11/27/2013
at 09:12 AM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> said:
>is radically misguided. There is an ineluctable conflict between
>power and ease of use.
That's a copout. The trouble with this user friendly software is that
it's so hard to use. If the user can't figure out how to do what he
needs to do then it's not user friendly. There are tradeoffs, but they
are more subtle than ease versus power.
>Steve Comstock's maxim, 'user friendly means programmer difficult'
>is on the mark.
Or at least close; making it user friendly certainly takes work, but
it requires work intelligently directed towards that goal. I've seen
plenty of cases where large amounts of misguided (IMHO) effort went
towards a user hostile product.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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