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Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy

Posted by timothy on from the thomas-sowell-is-smart-smart-smart dept.

Ken Hendrickson writes "Thomas Sowell has some fantastic common-sense advice for software developers from the viewpoint of an ordinary user: Make it easy to do what almost everybody wants to do. I don't believe he uses Free Software; that means that Microsoft is not satisfying their customers, and Free Software can perform better than Microsoft even in the ease of use area!"

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  1. Re:Yeah by happyfrogcow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Easier said than done. UI design sounds easy but it's not.

    that's what you UI people have been saying for years. It's like us developers saying "Writing safe, bugfree code is impossible." Bah!, i say. You're just saying it to demand a premium pay and more flexible schedule. UI's are simple! just look at Emacs.

    (just busting your balls, i'm completely kidding)