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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. Let us all learn from him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suggest Slashdot copy his website's color scheme for their next section.

  2. No. by mfh · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Is it time to pay more attention to end-users?(who aren't geeks)

    Uhm... No, not really.

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  3. Who? by MyShinyMetalAss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who are these 'end users' you speak of?

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  4. Is it time to pay more attention to end-users? by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny

    ....asks Hemos as he blinds us with another blast of beige-on-white text...

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  5. Focus on usablilty? by theantix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gee, it's too bad that there are no OSS projects that focus on usability. I wonder what such a product would look like if the OSS community ever tried to focus on that.

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