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Re: Raising the UI bar

 

On 31 March 2011 23:29, Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 31 March 2011 10:00:56 Jonathan Lange wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Huw Wilkins <huw.wilkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote: ...
>>
>> > one of my goals for the UI is zero WTF moments
>>
>> Nice :)
>
> Can we apply the same code quality theory [1] to UI? :-)
>
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/29wjuaf

Or, indeed <http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/aesthetics/interface-levels.html>,
with s/compiler/Launchpad.  Some of these bugs (eg 735290) cause
people to lose much more time than an oops or a slow page would
(depending on frequency with which they're hit.)

Martin



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