On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:40 AM, EdPimentl <[email protected]> wrote: > Define the user optimal user experience ...
i think that phrase is fraught with peril. there is no optimal user experience in some sense; there are too many different needs to balance to define anything. in my mind, good usability is all about making trade-offs over time across all possible use cases. the best you can write down is something like "the user can successfully accomplish tasks, and the user reports they are happy with the experience." if you try to get more detailed than that (with more than like 1 single user) you are going to quickly get into conflicting interests, abilities, goals, etc. which all have to be balanced. in other words: if there is not an experienced user experience person working on the project, then the chances of getting something as complicated as this to be an "optimal user experience" is nil. hire somebody :-) sincerely. no i'm not a ux person by trade, only by end-user-suffering perspective. _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
