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OSS Usability Group Forming

Posted by timothy on from the simplicity-is-complex dept.

cpfeifer writes "Tristan Louis has started a new group focusing on Usability in OSS products. Among the goals are: examining the state of he usability union in existing products, forming a set of standards and practices and PR for products that make usability strides. Also, check out the discussion on Metafilter."

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  1. Basic Guidelines by RealityMogul · · Score: 2, Funny


    1.) Don't use Blender as a model.
    2.) Putting vowels in command names can be helpful.
    3.) If you're a Perl programmer - don't try to cram the whole UI into 2 lines of code just because you can.

  2. Readability by dave_f1m · · Score: 2, Funny
    > examining the state of he usability union in existing products, forming a set of standards and practices and PR for products that make usability strides

    I'm glad readability isn't an issue.

    - dave f.