Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 21, 2003 04:19 AM
I can't figure out why it took people so long to make a simple, foolproof and "just doing my work"-shielded environment for budget computers.
Same reason it takes so long to make a bug-free operating system. It is a hard job, and UI experts are as necessary as anyone else. We engineers always think that, because we can make a UI, we should. We can also sing, but that doesn't mean we should. Let the singers sing, and the UI folks design for us. And take them seriously.
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UI design is a hard job too
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 21, 2003 04:19 AMI can't figure out why it took people so long to make a simple, foolproof and "just doing my work"-shielded environment for budget computers.
Same reason it takes so long to make a bug-free operating system. It is a hard job, and UI experts are as necessary as anyone else. We engineers always think that, because we can make a UI, we should. We can also sing, but that doesn't mean we should. Let the singers sing, and the UI folks design for us. And take them seriously.
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