Re: [LAU] Laid to rest is Pro Tools LE"...

Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On 3/3/11, david wrote:
>
>>> Bedroom software developers have never had to learn to
>>> eat their own dogfood.
>> Actually, that is why many of the apps are the way they are. Their
>> developers made them that way because they do use them, often daily.
>> (Many open source apps came about because some programmer had an itch,
>> and scratched it.) It works fine for them, so why should they change it
>> to fit some "amateur's idea" of how the program should work?
>
> Ah, one of my favourite topics :)
>
> The thing is that you don't break it down to a programmer that his app
> sucks. You tell him how to make his app even better than it now is, in
> a way that would keep his workflow more or less along the same lines
> while improbing every other bit. And with time you can even convince
> him/her to improve workflow. I've been doing that for years, and guess
> what ­-- it works.

I'm sure it does. Just keeping in mind that how the programmer uses his
or her app may well be *so different* from how someone else wants to use
the app, it doesn't make the app better for anyone, it only makes it
worse for everyone.

BTW, I see lots of programmers donating time to program apps, but damn
view UI or usability designers donating time to design UIs. So perhaps
those who complain about "this app doesn't work the way I want it to"
should stop complaining to the programmer and try to get some
UI/usability designers to contribute?

-- 
David
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