On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:41:38AM -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > Polls only go so far. Users often don't know what they want, or think > they want X and really want Y (or would have their actual needs better > met by Y). It's the user experience designer's job to sift through that > and give them what they need to do their work, which is not necessarily > what the users would tell you they need/want if you ask them. > > Polls (or, better yet, interviews) can be a valuable tool in figuring > out what to build & how to build it, but they are just one input point. > Further, a visionary designer can come up with good solutions that the > people polled couldn't have imagined and therefore couldn't have said > they wanted. > > I don't know that the Gnome designers and developers have achieved Steve > Jobs quality-of-vision when it comes to user experience design. But > they're trying a bold new concept (and yes it's new - Gnome Shell > predates both Metro and OSX Lion Dashboard), and that can pay off. > > All this to say, I think this idea of "polling the users" is very > misguided. Should more user input have been sought? Probably. But let's > stop talking about nonsense ways to get it. > > For those saying "if people liked it, we'd hear", let me add my voice: I > find Gnome 3 to be a very fluid and productive experience on my laptop. I agree completely. I was going to post a counter message adressing these anti Gnome 3 rants but shall refrain from doing so as it is next to impossible to influence Linux zealots of any persuasion. So I will hereby come out of the closet and let myself be "heard" as Gnome 3 lover. I too find Gnome 3 a fluid and productive experience on my laptop and a slightly less fluid but still productive experience on my desktop. In the name of all Gnome 3 afficionados I would suggest changing the title of this thread to: 'Gnome 3 is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2'. (This is not to say that I am uncritical of Gnome 3 or an admirer of the attitude of some of the Gnome developers) Alexander -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
