From: "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-12-17T13:07:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [RANT] does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes?

From: David Vallner [mailto:david@vallner.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 5:56 AM
>Suraj Kurapati wrote:
>> I don't know why people hate it so much. They seem to prefer "desktop
>> integration" and eye-candy instead of clean, functional interfaces.
>> Sigh. :-(
>>
>
>Some of us have to "sell" software, at least to managers - then it matters.
>
>[Hide the women, children and livestock. This just got bloody as I
>predicted.]
>
>Also, you're missing the point. It's a GUI, noone really gives a damn if
>the programmer had an easier time coding it if there's hundreds of users
>that will feel constantly alienated by it because of some detail the
>programmer didn't feel like bothering with.

[...]

>David Vallner
>No Way Someone Reads This Whole

I had. And it was good words. Really worth to be remembered and quoted.

(I've been freelance UI designer and usability consultant during several
years, so I somewhat know, what it all about.)

V.