Notifications Theming

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Wednesday 11 March 2009 23:00:31, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu:
> On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote:
> > while I agree with you that Trever hasn't given any compelling reasons
> > for notification theming, "because we can" has always seemed to be a
> > good enough reason in KDE
>
> which led to some of the most horrific interfaces around. we're actually
> trying to get *away* from that :)

+1
>
> > But the
> > possibility to arrive at a growl-like notification system seems
> > inviting to me.
>
> why?
>
> if growl did not exist, would you think that?
>
> whenever you hear "$something-alike" without any reasoning behind it, we
> should immediately think of cargo cult design and look for the use-benefit
> justification.
>
> that way we won't end up doing stupid things like reversing the order of
> Ok- Cancel "because Apple did it 25 years ago"
>
> > Essentially we would crowdsource the process of
> > finding a good way to notify the user.
>
> this is perhaps the absolutely *worst* way to design anything. why?
>
> a) users are not able to articulate what they actually want (at best they
> can identify their pain point, sometimes by describing a "solution")
>
> b) we do not have access to the *vast* majority of our users, so any
> "crowdsourcing" would lead to
>
> there is no "wisdom of the crowd" here.

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