On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 21:59 -0300, ext Alfredo J. Fabretti wrote: > Designers need constructive criticism, comments like the original post > only hurts their feelings. It's not that much about feelings really - we develop a pretty thick skin sooner than later :-) Anyhow, constructive criticism is of course useful. It's a lot more about practical thinking: resources are limited (even in a large corporation - time being one of the more scarce resources usually) and it makes sense to focus on certain scenarios and try to cover them well, rather than trying to do everything at once. Then you test it and see if it works, and if not, you repeat until it does, given the timeframe you have. It's not like we wear a beret and moustache and sip red wine* to come up with "The Design" and reveal it to the programmers from under a red velvet cloth in a ceremony.. But you probably knew that already ;) This results in a product that cannot please everyone, but hopefully does work for the target group. The challenge of course is to aim at the correct target in the first place, but this is getting way offtopic already ;^) Have a good 2008 everyone, and thanks for all the good feedback on the new OS release! :) //Tuomas (* I have nothing against moustaches, red wine or berets :)
