Linked by Mayuresh Walke on Thu 21st Apr 2005 08:01 UTC
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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The key merit of the project as proposed is that it would provide a place to discuss visualisation of specific data types. As such, I like the idea of a forum to discuss issues with the UI.
Like hobgoblin (above) I question the merits of breaking user services into separate applications. The truth is, users don't care about applications, they care about getting something done. As a result, I don't like the idea of breaking it down into individual platforms / apps. Furthermore, even in an application-oriented user environment, a good GUI needs to span all the user services, providing consistent visualisations of similar types of data.
That said, I with the project every success, no matter how it is structured.