What's the best way to: a. Improve usability in software applications? b. Review usability of existing software? c. Generate, encourage and review new ideas on software UI design? d. Make all this research work freely available to everyone (open source, proprietary, etc.)? e. Connect with all developer groups and individuals out there to share this work with them? Read more to find out.
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Actually there might be already standards about these things. Had Mayereesh checked it out? What about ECMA, ISO, ANSI, W3C or other organizations dealing with standards? Or like FCC?
Other than hose, there are plenty of de-facto standards for different platforms - Win32 UI for Windows, Gnome/KDE for Linux, etc.
I just don't see how this would work. It sounds a bit utopian if it tries to solve all problems at once.
Actually there might be already standards about these things. Had Mayereesh checked it out? What about ECMA, ISO, ANSI, W3C or other organizations dealing with standards? Or like FCC?
Other than hose, there are plenty of de-facto standards for different platforms - Win32 UI for Windows, Gnome/KDE for Linux, etc.
I just don't see how this would work. It sounds a bit utopian if it tries to solve all problems at once.