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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:re by PitaBred · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wait... did you say EASE of use on the Mac? That's why they ship with one button mice, right? And take 15 clicks to do anything? Get info about a file? Wade through dialogs. Eject a disk? Drag it to the trash! That's intuitive... anyway, no one has it 'right' yet. There are big inroads in many places, and OSX does have some nice things about it. But it's not the panacea that so many people seem to think it is. Hell, I can't even get the virtual desktop manager to start up when the system boots. Can't figure out where it is in any intuitive way.

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