Re: Fwd: [Contributors] Microsoft Windows Is Offically Broken

[Mike McCarty <mike mccarty sbcglobal net>]

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
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