Hey all,
I thought I'd spread the word about Open Source Design [1], which is a
community of designers and developers that wants to improve usability of
free software (never mind the name, I guess most people are not as
strict about it as e.g. Richard Stallman ;-) ).
A friend (hey Sam!) made me a
This is totally a great initiative! Will definitely read up on their
activities.
Louigi Verona
https://louigiverona.com/
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 4:54 PM David Runge wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I thought I'd spread the word about Open Source Design [1], which is a
> community of designers and develo
Interesting that on their goals page they never mention "users" or
"customers". So how are they going to understand what works if users are
never consulted? This could be a mistake that would make the whole
initiative void. Designers should help design the software, but it has to
be based on users
On 2018-11-29 17:32:44 (+0100), Louigi Verona wrote:
> Interesting that on their goals page they never mention "users" or
> "customers". So how are they going to understand what works if users
> are never consulted? This could be a mistake that would make the whole
> initiative void. Designers shou
On 29/11/2018 17.32, Louigi Verona wrote:
Interesting that on their goals page they never mention "users" or
"customers". So how are they going to understand what works if users are
never consulted?
That's clearly up to every single project. So from the point of view of
"Open Source Design",
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:33 AM Louigi Verona
wrote:
> Interesting that on their goals page they never mention "users" or
> "customers". So how are they going to understand what works if users are
> never consulted? This could be a mistake that would make the whole
> initiative void. Designers sh
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:24 PM Spencer Jackson
wrote:
> https://ometer.com/preferences.html was also very good. I plan to read
> more later.
>
"Lisp is not a good user interface."
this is a fallacy. Lisp is an excellent user interface, for the right kind
of user. Knowing who you are designing
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:28 AM Paul Davis
wrote:
>
> Lisp is an excellent user interface, for the right kind of user.
>
Good point, Paul. I was mostly lauding the article's main principle that
adding a preference has a cost and it's worth evaluating the benefit of
each preference offered in a
On Thu, 2018-11-29 at 18:02 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On 29/11/2018 17.32, Louigi Verona wrote:
> > Interesting that on their goals page they never mention "users" or
> > "customers". So how are they going to understand what works if users are
> > never consulted?
>
> That's clearly up to e