Tim wrote:
Tim:
A good GUI shouldn't need documentation, though; it should explain
itself intuitively, and provide some hints for the more difficult
bits.
akonstam trinity edu
I have an ex-student who made a claim like this recently. His company
produces a product that needs no documentation. It is "intuitively
obvious" he says.
Balderdash. I am still waiting for the program that needs no
documentation.
Then it's not a "good GUI". :-\ I did say a good GUI shouldn't need
it, I didn't say all GUIs are good. A lot are quite crap, like the two
examples I gave.
ANY significant system needs documentation. I take it that the only
good GUI is a trivial, useless one, then.
On the other side of the coin, a lot of non-GUI programs are crap to use
for similar reasons: Unintuitive ways of working, requires
documentation to understand how to use them, and the documentation is
poor.
Nobody has said otherwise, AFAIK.
Mike