"Free/Open Source software has grown considerably from its roots in the UNIX tradition of the command line interface and early X Windows-based graphical environments. As desktop use has increased concurrently with advances in desktop development, serious user interface and experience issues have arisen. Celeste Lyn Paul of User Centered Design, Inc. and the KDE Project presented, 'A Quick and Dirty Intro to User Centered Design in Open Source Development', Saturday at SCaLE 6X. Her talk emphasized the importance of including designers in the development process."
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Member since:2007-12-26
In my opinion she doesn't need it at all. This is what I call "buzz-software". The discription says enought "a specialized interaction design tool". The movie on the site is worst. It's a buzzword machinegun with a deadly accent.
It seems that she thinks opensource software is important. So yes you whould help her by directing her to an opensource version of her last proprietary software. I know I whould appreciate it.
But if she doesn't care and is happy, you are right.
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Member since:2007-08-20
She'd like to run this tool on Linux. However, she currently can't.
Two choices:
1) We help her get it running on Linux
2) We help her find an alternative that works just as well for her.
Since I'm not gonna offer to help get .Net working on Linux I'm left with one choice to promote.
We really should be having this conversation with her rather than amongst ourselves, but oh well.
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2007-12-04
Why would you think she needs help? She seems happy with using Axure. Does she really need an alternative?