User Interfaces (was:Royal Pain)

[Peter Hiscocks]

And that is why rapid prototyping, with some language like Tcl, is so useful.
You can do a user interface really quickly and get feedback on that. 
The UI isn't the whole system, but it's often a big part of it and it's the
part that users hate or love.

Incidentally, if you want to see an example of a poor user interface take a
look at Webmail. And Ryerson's interlibrary loan system (RACER) has an
incredibly bad user interface. 

Peter



On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:47:20AM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote:
> Worse, the specifications will inevitably change when the prototypes start
> running.  Partly because the specs weren't that precise in the first
> place; partly because people often can't clearly visualize what they want,
> so the specs weren't *right* either; and partly because what they want
> *changes* once they get to play with an actual system and get some idea of
> its potentials and limitations. 
> 
>                                                           Henry Spencer
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