At Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:03:15 -0400,
Pete Bessman wrote:
>
> That's a straw man. The original point was something to the effect
> of "a volume knob which can only be operated after studying a manual
> is an indication that the UI designer is a failure," although my
> rendition is probably more cau
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:03:15PM -0400, Pete Bessman wrote:
> That's a straw man. The original point was something to the effect of
> "a volume knob which can only be operated after studying a manual is
> an indication that the UI designer is a failure," although my
> rendition is probably more
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:47:48AM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> Actually, in my house we speak latin only when we feel the urge to make
> fun of people in badly need of a good argument. Out of house, of course,
> we speak latin to make people feel stupid and stop argueing with us.
I don't liv
On mån, 2004-06-28 at 01:22, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>
> If a manual is well written and explains both the concepts behind
> an application and it's modus operandi, the answer is probably
> 'yes'. At least I do.
Latin?
>
> There have been some references, both direct and less direct, to
> my 'st
Pete Bessman wrote:
[ ... ]
Fons is an intelligent human being, and even if he is being somewhat
more "elitist" than some may consider necessary, there is nothing
gained by berating his viewpoint with sarcasm.
>That's a straw man. The original point was something to the effect of
>"a volu
At Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:22:05 +0200,
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>
> "... whenever we invite someone into the news studio, he has to make
> his point in 12 seconds. If I know he can't, I will not even
> consider him." Why not ? "Beacause it's bad TV, and our market share
> will go down. Our viewers just
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 18:22, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> Going back to our original point: if a user is too lazy to read
> a manual, I can't be bothered with his problem. And if someone
> proclaims that aversion to reading documentation is 'normal', I
> will disagree, and now you all know why.
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 19:22, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> More and more, as an 'intellectual' I find myself in a position that
> comes down to this: either you budge and dumb down, or you'll be
> excluded. This is just one step from what happened during the Nazi
> regime, the 'Cultural Revolution', or
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:58:19AM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> With regards to widgets, I stated that requiring the user
> to read documetation in order to use a widget is not an
> option. It was especialy about visualizing / hinting at
> functionality. The fan-sliders without the fan graphi
