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UI Designers Hired by Mozilla
ta bu shi da yu writes "Mozilla has hired several developers from Humanized. According to Ars Technica, Humanized is a "small software company that is known for its considerable usability expertise and innovative user interface design. The Humanized developers will be working at Mozilla Labs on Firefox and innovative new projects.""
...to use a little bit less RAM, things would be dandy.
Also, does anyone else experience lag when switching tabs? I've noticed that with some gtk2 engines that tab switching time goes up significantly, specifically murrine. Even with a basic theme I get a little bit of lag on my core2duo system with 4GB RAM, its very strange (and frustrating, I can't stand the little bits of lag between switching tabs).
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The problem wiht usability experts is that they would never come up with vi. That's because it's complex, hard to learn and impossible for beginners to quit (never mind learn) without a cheat sheet. But get past that (and some of us do) and there is an incredibly powerful editor which becomes easier and easier to use as one learns. Many of us vi fanatics find everything else hard to use by comparison.
But because of that a UI expert would never come up with it. Is this a big problem? I dunno.
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Jesus Christ, can people just leave things alone?
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
Isn't that what Open Usability is about? Additionally, considering the number of exceedingly terrible websites I've seen by so-called "Usability Experts," how can you really define what it means to be "qualified?"
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