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That's a good approach. If you back it up with a study of your target audience, and creates the personae in a way that it represents it well, you could even tak
by lvxferre 5y ago
That's a good approach. If you back it up with a study of your target audience, and creates the personae in a way that it represents it well, you could even take decisions like "We could annoy Ginny for the sake of Eddy and Frank, it'll make the software better for most people... but we're better off throwing her a bone too."
I don't think GNOME devs have such an insight. They claim to be right too often, too soon; I don't trust people like this to take smart decisions.
- hyperman1 5y agoA few days ago HN had an article about dumb vs stupid or something. The first being a low quality brain, but the second could happen when smart people work with the wrong mental framework. I fear GNOME is locked in the second problem. Clearly they have a lot of smart people over there, but I also see a lot of wasted effort and dumbing down. One aspect of the wrong mental framework would be working for the nonexistant elastic average user. Another example would be their stance on the unimportance of backward compatibility.