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Tantacrul, the project lead for both MuseScore and Audacity, is a professional UI/UX designer and has once conducted a significant first-time user testing for D

Tantacrul, the project lead for both MuseScore and Audacity, is a professional UI/UX designer and has once conducted a significant first-time user testing for Dorico [1], so I'm pretty sure that he already knows what you are saying. Given his latest video about Audacity [2] though, I guess that Audacity has a very diverse user base and it might be hard to do the user testing while accounting for that diversity (the article you've linked specifically mention this issue). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3wEC6Fj_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3wEC6Fj_8 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWNvwLiXIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWNvwLiXIQ (includes an interview with original Audacity developers)

fartcannon 5y ago
So he's already flubbed this once before. How many flubs until we can assume malice? Im getting a Miguel de Icaza vibe from him. Wolf in sheeps clothing.
- fartcannon 5y ago
  It's even worse than I imagined. He's refusing to say who owns and how they came to own Audacity 'for fear of getting it wrong'... Something shady is going on for sure and this guy is their PR wall.
  - ergot_vacation 5y ago
    And he's made it clear repeatedly now that he's not actually in control of the project or empowered to make any significant decisions on it, despite what his youtube video implied. He appears to be just a glorified UI/UX contractor, albeit one with a huge youtube audience. Whoever IS in control clearly has no understanding of the community or history of Audacity, and no interest in gaining that understanding, given that he apparently had to beg them just to get them to step away from sabotaging the software within a week of buying it.
- y2bd 5y ago
  >So he’s already flubbed this once before To my understanding he has never worked for Dorico in any capacity. He did the usability testing independently for the sake of his video essay, not in order to actually guide work.

fartcannon 5y ago

So he's already flubbed this once before. How many flubs until we can assume malice? Im getting a Miguel de Icaza vibe from him. Wolf in sheeps clothing.

fartcannon 5y ago
It's even worse than I imagined. He's refusing to say who owns and how they came to own Audacity 'for fear of getting it wrong'... Something shady is going on for sure and this guy is their PR wall.
- ergot_vacation 5y ago
  And he's made it clear repeatedly now that he's not actually in control of the project or empowered to make any significant decisions on it, despite what his youtube video implied. He appears to be just a glorified UI/UX contractor, albeit one with a huge youtube audience. Whoever IS in control clearly has no understanding of the community or history of Audacity, and no interest in gaining that understanding, given that he apparently had to beg them just to get them to step away from sabotaging the software within a week of buying it.
y2bd 5y ago
>So he’s already flubbed this once before To my understanding he has never worked for Dorico in any capacity. He did the usability testing independently for the sake of his video essay, not in order to actually guide work.