Fwd: Re: Application duplication (was: Re: cdbakeoven)

[Thomas Zander]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 06:26:54PM +0200, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 17:59, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > But all these players have basically the same interface, and different
> > performances. So here choice makes sense, because it affects your budget
> > and the quality of the result. Two CD burning programs will have different
> > interfaces but shouldn't have different results given the same data to
> > burn.
> 
> Well... A long term dream of me is a user interface that adapts itself to what 
> the user wants, instead of being designed by whatever usability guidelines 
> dictate. I have other ideas about usability than you or my parents. A style 
> guide is a nice common denominator that generally works good enough for most 
> people. That doesn't mean there isn't something better for one group or 
> another.

Now thats a good example of a contradiction in terminus (hope I spelled that 
correctly).
So you want a changing interface that will be usable; and by the first rule of 
GUI design that means your changing interface still has to still be consitent...

I recently heard someone saying all computers had to have the same interface
otherwise it would be hard to migrate from one to another; while we all know
that is impossible, or at the very least boring. Your suggestion makes a computer
behave like a women. Without lots of the good parts :)

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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