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I agree, and I was astounded when I found out they had never done an end to end study of how people use Visual Studio while I was at MSFT. It surprises me how
by ibdknox 13y ago
I agree, and I was astounded when I found out they had never done an end to end study of how people use Visual Studio while I was at MSFT.
It surprises me how little we really know about the human aspects of our own field. The practical/pragmatic side of understanding how we really program, what's hard, where we stumble, what we do easily, etc is something that we're trying to address with Light Table. LT happens to be the perfect playground to do this sort of experimentation, so at the very least we'll be making it easier for researchers already in the space. But as we get further along and have a few more hands to spare, we'll start picking off research questions ourselves.
The more the merrier, right? :)
- Finster 13y ago> I agree, and I was astounded when I found out they had never done an end to end study of how people use Visual Studio while I was at MSFT. As someone who uses Visual Studio everyday, I am not surprised by this at all. Don't get me wrong, Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's out there, but sometimes it's inspite of itself. Like removing functionality from the Text Explorer in VS 2012, which they have finally been patching back in. Dumb, dumb, dumb. If they HAD end-to-end user testing, they never would've remove the functionality in the first place.
- ibdknox 13y agoFWIW, while I was there I ran the first end-to-end usability study. It was... enlightening :)
- frozenport 13y agoWow, what did you learn?