[Osx-nutters] Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software

[Jeffrey Hergan]

On Jan 2, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Henry McGilton wrote:

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> Fancy that . . .

"You don't want your customers to design your product," he said. 
"They're really bad at it."

Uh..is it just me, or is he the customer who's trying to design the 
software?  Maybe he means that you don't want the rest of the customers 
trying to design the software because although he (Thomas) is good at 
it, the rest of the customers (power users et al) are really bad at it. 
  Seems to me that everyone has their own idea of ideal feature sets and 
the best programmers walk a line between hugely bloated software and 
software that doesn't do all that it needs to.

Jeff
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