Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 22, 2006 05:06 AM
I initially liked Thunderbird, but I stopped using it, because it made a huge mess of my multiple email accounts. It would work sometimes when connecting, but just hang other times, and it would not sort the email correctly. Mail would end up in wrong folders.
From the article it seems that no one bothered to do any usability test. This is a common pandemic now in the software world. Projects are just handed over to developers without any direction and they are left to decide how it looks and functions for a user.
Developers are coming at the project from a different position. To them it might make perfect sense why they placed a button or option on the fourth tab at the bottom under a submenu of a submenu. But to the actual user it makes no sense at all.
Usability test help in that they show how to design so that the average user has little or no trouble getting your software to work for them.
Successful software development actually ask people that have little or no experience with the project does this make sense, was it easy to figure out how to use, any suggestions how to make it easier to understand and use?
Usability is a very integral part of software development, but it seems it’s just becoming more of an afterthought.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 22, 2006 05:06 AMFrom the article it seems that no one bothered to do any usability test. This is a common pandemic now in the software world. Projects are just handed over to developers without any direction and they are left to decide how it looks and functions for a user.
Developers are coming at the project from a different position. To them it might make perfect sense why they placed a button or option on the fourth tab at the bottom under a submenu of a submenu. But to the actual user it makes no sense at all.
Usability test help in that they show how to design so that the average user has little or no trouble getting your software to work for them.
Successful software development actually ask people that have little or no experience with the project does this make sense, was it easy to figure out how to use, any suggestions how to make it easier to understand and use?
Usability is a very integral part of software development, but it seems it’s just becoming more of an afterthought.
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