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Jakob Nielsen Talks About Usability in FOSS

Posted by Hemos on from the editing-text-files-suck dept.

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)"

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  1. Re:Dunno about you by computerme · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    For you. That's great.

    For anyone in the creative industry. No.
    For anyone that needs Office. No. (and please don't say OpenOffice is the same)
    For anyone in Video. No (please don't say GimpFinalCut is around the corner)
    For anyone that wants a consistant interface. No. (copy and paste != sort of copy and sort of paste)
    For anyone doing dvd production. No.
    For Grandma. No.
    For Photoshop Users. No. (Gimp != Photoshop)
    For elementary school kids. No.
    For plug and play wireless networking. No.
    For people that don't want to rebuild kernals with new revs of linux. No.
    For people that want features like expose and searchlite months or years before the competition. No.
    For people that don't want to use Wine to run commerical apps. No.

    I am happy its working out for you...for people that fit into the above, its not.