[Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

Havoc Pennington hp at pobox.com
Tue Dec 13 06:24:48 PST 2005


Hi,

On 12/13/05, Mike Shaver <shaver at mozilla.org> wrote:
>
> "Usability" (that's a bad word now, I hear, but I don't have my
> persona-experience-design cheat sheet at this desk, so bear with me)
> is certainly an important issue in user satisfaction, but I have a
> hard time convincing myself that it's a big issue in getting users to
> try the damned thing in the first place.  I will stand atop the
> tallest hill and shout that Firefox is more pleasant and productive
> to use than IE, but I know that most people tried it and used it for
> that first day because of _options_ like tabbed browsing and popup
> blocking.

I would call those features not options, really.

But in any case, I don't really think it's about number of options;
it's about quality of default behavior.

Havoc




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