25 Jul
2005
25 Jul
'05
7:50 a.m.
That is the point, I absolutely dont feel reading up
on
something is necessarily a bad thing. My hair stand up if
I watch a typical no-clue windows user more or less
randomly hitting buttons in the interface until "something"
works. I do feel this "it has to work out of the box
without me having to know anything about it" attitude is
childish.
There are two different things we should divide. There are
users who simply have no idea what they want to do. This is
the type you mentioned above and you're right.
OTOH, there are users who already have knowledge about a
certain task. These users will first try explore the UI
before reading docs.
Be honest: Do you read documentation when trying out a new
webbrowser or text processor? Certainly not. You know what
these tools are for, and you know how to deal with text
processors or web browsers.
The latter one is the target group we're discussing. Users who
already know about audio, audio synthesis and audio
processing.
Best regards
ce