Good article about usability of open-source apps

[Warren Baird]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

>
> Yes -- it's a very interesting read, but even more interesting are the
> reactions in the blogosphere, for instance by our own Celeste :-). Still,
> there are problems this article doesn't take into account, like when there
> is
> just two hours in an evening to implement a feature, and the preliminary
> design phase, when done right, would already take three hours -- what then?


Well - I spend most of my time in the commercial software world, where the
answer is either suck it up and do what you can in 2 hours - or convince the
powers that be for an extension.

For an open-source project, where there usually isn't as much pressure to
release before it's ready, I'd say that the answer is to spend 2 or 3 weeks
instead of one - or to find someone else interested to help...

I tend to agree with a lot of the items in the article - I think the core
problem is that a lot of people don't find design (code or UI) as
interesting as the actual coding - so they are more likely to just spend the
majority of their time on the 'fun stuff'.

Warren
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