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Subject: Re: Zappa GUI ideas

Author: James Constance

Date: 09:15:58 09/05/05

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On September 05, 2005 at 11:52:44, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>It's funny how everybody thinks they have good ideas about the features a GUI
>should have and yet the world contains so many bad GUIs. This just shows that
>the suggestions should be taken with a grain of salt.

Perhaps the good GUIs are a result of user suggestions and the bad GUIs are
where these have been ignored.
>
>My own experience tells me that programmers are generally poor GUI designers and
>the users are generally even worse. I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed
>and hope to be pleasantly surprised.

What we really need, then, is a GUI designer who ignores the suggestions of
programmers and users.  :)
>
>AC's best chance is to please himself with the GUI he comes up with and not let
>the suggestions sabotage it.

Perhaps the suggestions will help to make it a wonderful GUI and not sabotage
it.

With a smile

James



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