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User Interfaces in Free Software

Posted by michael on from the too-many-widgets-spoil-the-desktop dept.

Havoc Pennington wrote a piece on creating good user interfaces, with special attention toward GNOME 2. See also the advogato thread.

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  1. I think I'll just restate what I said last time by roffe · · Score: 5, Informative

    In a previous posting, I sum up what I think are the main reasons why Linux won't make it to the desktop just yet. Wrapping up my arguments nicely, the article was scored down as a troll.

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    -- Rolf Lindgren, cand.psychol
  2. Re:Worth reading by TheAJofOZ · · Score: 5, Informative
    Who gets to decide which single UI is the best though? And then what happens when tens of thousands of people disagree?

    Develop a good UI and let experts in the area choose it and you will find that there are few people who disagree that it's the best. UI design doesn't come down to personal preference, it is based on common traits that almost all people share. People only have one locus of attention, it is easier to use an interface that makes the options visible in a clear manner rather than making you guess at it, the time taken to hit a target is directly related to the distance distance to the object and the size of the object, etc, etc. It's all been documented, go do some reading on it.