[Sigia-l] Open Source Usability -- curable?

[Listera]

Dave: 
> If an OS project instituted something like these requirements, then
> the projects themselves would not be so run by engineering mindsets
> and we can start working more x-functionally on OS projects.

These would definitely help. But I wouldn't stop there. As the original
article suggested, they are reactive, corrective and incremental, always a
step behind what programmers are doing.

In enterprise settings, there may be some counterbalancing forces like
marketing people, business analysts, IA/UI/UX designers (if lucky), etc. In
most OSS settings, all you get is programmers. It is hard to reform that
situation.

I think the fundamental solution is to wrestle the overall vision,
architecture and flow of the app away from programmers. As long as
programmers are "designing" instead of "implementing" we will always have
these issues.

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Ziya

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