Comment Re:Tyranny of the stupid (Score 1) 299
>. What is needed are many, many, focus group sessions to create an OSS interface guidlines document that everyone can refer to (or not) when they build thier applications. Arent Gnome doing something approaching this?
Focus groups themselves don't necessarily give you clear vision. First you have to agree on what problems you're looking to solve then go from there.
Regarding design-by-dictatorship vs. design-by-committee, look at the Phoenix project and Chimera which were started as a reaction to the designed-by-committee state of Mozilla's UI.
Focus groups themselves don't necessarily give you clear vision. First you have to agree on what problems you're looking to solve then go from there.
Regarding design-by-dictatorship vs. design-by-committee, look at the Phoenix project and Chimera which were started as a reaction to the designed-by-committee state of Mozilla's UI.
