27 Nov
2005
27 Nov
'05
1:38 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:49:41AM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
Surely we should be arguing about ease of use (and power) rather than looks. The aim is to give the user that ability to do what they need to do easily and *then*, maybe, make it look pretty.
This assumes appearance is not a factor in ease of use or productivity
- an erroneous assumption IMHO.
It's *a* factor certainly, but not *the* factor. You could design a beautiful looking GUI interface that was very difficult to use. On the other hand I suspect (in partial agreement with you) that it would be difficult to design an ugly one that is easy to use.
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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."