[LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

[david]

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 05:49:07PM +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:

>> Usability (better: user-friendlyness ) is about supporting the learning process.
> 
> One question is *which* existing knowledge, understanding or
> learning process. The software itself or the application
> domain ? It's IMHO not the task of a developer of audio
> sofware to teach audio engineering, not even to make his
> application usable for someone who doesn't have the
> required background. And the expectation (common enough)
> that you can learn any application domain by clicking
> around in some software is just not realistic.

As someone who's had to deal with MS Access databases created by people 
who know nothing about databases except how to click buttons in MS 
Access - I agree completely.

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David
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