Jakob Nielsen Talks About Usability in FOSS 327
dokey writes "In an interview with Builder AU, usability expert Jakob Nielsen gives his opinion of usability in Free and open source software. The article echoed what Jon "Maddog" Hall said earlier this year in a keynote at Linux.conf.au -- "Programmers Are From Mars, Users/Managers/Companies are from Venus". Is it time to pay more attention to end-users?(who aren't geeks)"
Let us all learn from him (Score:5, Funny)
No. (Score:4, Funny)
Uhm... No, not really.
Time for some Nick Burns (Score:4, Funny)
He fixes your computer, and then he's gonna make fun of you.
Who? (Score:5, Funny)
Is it time to pay more attention to end-users? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm... look at this guy (Score:3, Funny)
His web site? [useit.com]
well, just take a look.
anyhow, enough of that.
This guy could do to take a look at OSS for a change and stop contradicting himself (familiarity is good, oh, but don't clone)....
kde look [kde-look.org] has got more usability hanging off of it than, well, Nielsen I suppose.
OSS Firefox has create standards support (not excellent though), which is really handy if you trying to design a web site for dis/abled people.
Maybe OpenOffice does have more features than Office, but can't you just turn them off, or ignore them. Maybe I can preview sounds in Konquror, but not in Explorer. Maybe were all pissed of with the likes of Microsoft and Nielsen trying to dumb the world down, to the point where people stop thinking all together.
Most kids are coming through school with a high level of computer literacy, I'm sure even the ones who aren't geeks can get to grips with a Mandrake install.
Jakob Nielsen, shut the fuck up and fix you web site, and try to practise what you preach, before telling other what to do.
Re:No. (Score:1, Funny)
If you're whining about the inability to maniuplate how bloated GUI app X interacts with bloated window manager Y then you aren't much of a geek, are you? Get back to your command line, n00b.
Is it time to pay more attention to end-users? (Score:2, Funny)
Bloody Soviets... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh yeah?? Well, my editing text files rock! You had better believe it, or they might just edit you!
(Guess that's one way to solve the end user problem...)
Re:Is it time to pay more attention to end-users? (Score:3, Funny)
Would that include a spelling-checker?
Focus on usablilty? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Communication error (Score:3, Funny)
Sure, it's confusing to people who know what they're doing, but it's more elegant!
Re:it is what IT is (Score:1, Funny)
Fuck em!