my 2cents,
>From my side, I see that much of the gui hype is just that.
Very few users design the gui's out there. The idea of a gui that would
change according to the user is a great idea. (everytime a user says
*##* when a gui gets you angry.
Most gui's are based on someones cute or neat idea,
Omer Zak wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Gil Freund wrote:
[snip]
CUPS (the original example given) is an foss project from a company that
make a parallel commercial product. It has a licensing cash flow and
therefor has money not related only to "support and service". The same
is true of Mozilla, Open
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Gil Freund wrote:
> Omer Zak wrote:
> > In http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability , John Gruber
> > explains why (in his opinion), Free Software is destined to always suck
> > in terms of GUI quality.
> > I don't know if he is right or not.But I'd like to wear my
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:41:02AM +0300, Gil Freund wrote:
> >1. How would people, who want to be GUI designers, get trained in the
> >art of GUI design?
> Read Eduard Tufte's books on design. It's not UI, but on how to present
> information, and check out Orelly's "Annoyance" series.
Or, since
Omer Zak wrote:
In http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability , John Gruber
explains why (in his opinion), Free Software is destined to always suck
in terms of GUI quality.
I don't know if he is right or not. But I'd like to wear my Optimist
Hat and try to come up with reasons why he
