Re: [LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

On 08/08/11 05:30, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 06:09:16PM +0800, Simon Wise wrote:
>
>> 1/ Allow someone opening up an application for the first time to click
>> around and discover what it might be able to do before they start looking
>> at any manuals.
>>
>> 2/ Allow someone who uses it everyday to do the things they do frequently
>> as quickly and ergonomically as possible, assuming they have already
>> spent some time learning the system.
>>
>>
>> The first helps sales, and without it many people won't look further
>
> Indeed. But so what ? If a potential user doesn't look further then
> (s)he is probably just browsing to kill time and boredom, and doesn't
> need the application at all. What can I, as a developer, expect from
> such a 'user' ? Why should I even spend a second of my time to please
> anyone who is not motivated at all ?

Yes - that is exactly what I was asking in the next paragraph - unless you are
being paid from sales, how do you justify this effort?

Perhaps I should have been more direct, or more brief.

Simon
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Received on Mon Aug 8 08:15:01 2011