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If you put only designers in charge of any kind of a project or organization, you just end up with a different kind of disaster. Look at GNOME 3, for instance.
by PommeDeTerre 14y ago
If you put only designers in charge of any kind of a project or organization, you just end up with a different kind of disaster. Look at GNOME 3, for instance. It was a design-led initiative. It failed to produce usable software, it failed to attract any new users, and it actually managed to drive away an absolutely huge number of existing GNOME users. As it stands, it is one of the worst OSS disasters we've seen yet.
You need a balanced team. That's the only way to truly succeed.
- flatline3 14y agoAnecdotally, gnome 3 attracted me. I now run a Ubuntu system, but I haven't switched my main desktop to Ubuntu because Mac OS X is still better (for me).
- vlisivka 14y agoI like Gnome3. I will not return back to Gnome2 like interface. However, I use my own switch-or-exec system to switch between windows (or launch programs, when no windows are open) using keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Win+F for Firefox windows, Win+G for Gedit, Win+C for eClipse, and so on. PS. I working for HP as sub-contractor at outsource firm (in Ukraine). Their code makes me cry. It looks like they lacking proper software architects with good knowledge about obscure but very important topics like separation of concerns or complexity curve (information bang), etc.