24 Apr
2015
24 Apr
'15
7:58 a.m.
Op 23-apr.-2015 22:59 schreef "Fons Adriaensen" <fons(a)linuxaudio.org>rg>:
If you are writing a softsynth that will be used by a pilot i guess you
might want to use this approach
If you want more people to be able to use it i sugest you dont. ;-)
All kidding aside i think that Gianfranco nailed it when he was talking
about target audience
Grtz
Thijs
And the result is
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 07:47:50AM +0200, Thijs van severen wrote:
> > People writing 'GUI standards' and trying to force them on everyone
> > should have a look at e.g. a modern 'glass cockpit'.
>
> We are not talking about someone that suddenly decided to make up there
own
set rules and
then tried to fore it upon us
We are talking about a group of people that conducted a study on a large
group of random users, and based on that study they defined a set of
guidelines for us to use ... or ignore
And in the case I mentioned (flight deck displays and user interfaces)
were are talking about *specialists* in ergonomics who have conducted
a not one but a series of studies and experiments involving a large
group of *expert* users and costing tons of money. quite different. So whom do you think I should believe
?
During my lunch break today I'be been reading a number of UI design
guidelines. Of course there is some truth in them. It would be rather
difficult not to find out the value of consistency, of reasonable
color schemes and layout etc.
But *all* of them, without exception, seem to assume that the user
is some ignorant nitwit, without any prior knowledge about the
application domain and too lazy to learn, let alone read a manual
or $GOD help us, configure the software he is trying to use. Or
not actually use but just play around with it a bit.
That type of user may and actually does exist, and that may be where
the money (or fame) is, but it is *not* the type of user I'm writing
for or even remotely interested in.
Ciao,
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