On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 06:09:16PM +0800, Simon Wise
wrote:
1/ Allow someone opening up an application for
the first time to click
around and discover what it might be able to do before they start looking
at any manuals.
2/ Allow someone who uses it everyday to do the things they do frequently
as quickly and ergonomically as possible, assuming they have already
spent some time learning the system.
The first helps sales, and without it many people won't look further
Indeed. But so what ? If a potential user doesn't look further then
(s)he is probably just browsing to kill time and boredom, and doesn't
need the application at all. What can I, as a developer, expect from
such a 'user' ? Why should I even spend a second of my time to please
anyone who is not motivated at all ?
Yes - that is exactly what I was asking in the next paragraph - unless you are
being paid from sales, how do you justify this effort?
Perhaps I should have been more direct, or more brief.
Simon