[Sigia-l] UI for the $150 Laptop (OLPC)

[Antoine.Valot at ins.com]

Anyone is welcome to "criticize" or even just "critique" anything. But an UX practitioner probably ought to try to make their critiques usable. 

If the intended end-user for your critique is the OSS developer community, then you better do your homework, and make the critique usable for that audience. That doesn't necessarily have to mean that you get "involved" in the project, or even in fixing the problems. It does mean that you should:

- Find out their personalities, and business and personal goals.
- Help them achieve their business goals better, while respecting their personal goals, and in a way that doesn't clash with their personalities.

If you find out that their personality is "masochistic, insecure, subservient, submissive to authority", their business goal is "to give people training wheels for Windows", and their personal goal is "to improve my design skills by having my flaws pointed out to me by strangers"... then your critique is excellent and highly usable for that crowd. 

Otherwise, reconsider the UX of your critique. Usability is not just for websites. It's for how we communicate, too! 

"La critique est aisée, mais l'art est difficile."
-- Philippe Destouches

Antoine Valot  |  Senior Information Architect  |  INS  |  Cell: 303.995.5618  |  Email: antoine.valot at ins.com 

-----Original Message-----

> Considering that would only piss off developers and not really get  anything
> done...

I find this approach, what's the word, dangerous.