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| Date: | 13 Feb 2001 at 01:20:00 |
| Subject: | Programmer == User? (was: Re: Custom screens) |
Hello Xavier,
> [...]
> Nevermind the programmer often does end up being a user and hence does
> know what a user wants. :-)
I couldn't let this comment pass, knowing that this belief is one of
the reasons for all the crappy software/interfaces that we are faced
with every day. A programmer thinks very different than the average
user, if you don't beleive me then tell me why only programmers end up
as users of something like emacs?
However, if you give a task to 5 different users then they'll probably
solve it in at least 3 different ways -- which brings me back to the
main point of not disabling features, simply because the programmer
assume that they won't be used...
But enough about this :-)
Kind regards Allan
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