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It was standard practice back then to sit non technical and (separately) expert users in front of a product, film their reactions, and then adjust the product d
by hedora 3y ago
It was standard practice back then to sit non technical and (separately) expert users in front of a product, film their reactions, and then adjust the product design until most of the swearing stopped.
Gnome 2 famously did this. Gnome 3 famously threw out the findings, which is why Linux Mint exists, and how KDE (eventually) caught up on usability.
- lmm 3y agoNah. KDE 3 was better than Gnome 2 in the first place. KDE 5 has almost recovered to that level.
- kps 3y agoGNOME is an interesting case, because you can't blame it (directly) on managers pushing dark patterns to maximize conversions. Is it all just trickle-down of user-hostile design philosophy from the commercial web?