On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> wrote:
> > What now feels to be an eternity ago, Mark Shuttleworth in a Community > Council session, http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/09/02/% > 23ubuntu-meeting.html: > > 22:09 in terms of audience, i think we have to aim for young > professionals who are web-savvy > > 22:14 if we are ambitious, we want to serve all human beings > > 22:15 so, the only reason i focused on young web-savvy professionals is > they will be the standard-bearers for taking ubuntu to a wider audience > > 22:15 and they are probably attracted to particular ideas in design > like the iphone used web 2.0 ideas > > ---- I think standing by the comment at 22:09 (or of course a better defined version of it) would help so much in focusing Ubuntu's design work. But alas 5 minutes later it's all dashed. I really think we're shooting ourselves in the foot trying to aim at everybody. It's an impossible goal. It tremendously weakens the resulting design. This is a well established principle of design. Audience and goal. I know many people on this list have probably seen this, but it's such a wonderful and spot-on post by Havoc Pennington on the subject.( http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-February/msg00174.html ) The sad thing is it's 4 years ago that he wrote it. No one is listening.. well.. that's not entirely accurate. Some people apparently are: http://blog.cberger.net/2010/03/02/the-difficult-choice-of-removing-features/
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